Having nabbed its prey, the box jellyfish moves the captive to its stomach for predigestion. |
He is thinking of farmers who breed grasses to produce food crops, and of cooking as a process of predigestion to enable us to consume otherwise inedible foods. |
Enzyme predigestion with pepsin was performed as recommended by the manufacturer. |
First, a predigestion with nitric acid and then a digestion with perchloric acid. |
His first great experiment would fill bellies, equaling the predigestion of foodstuffs by cooking, which had quickened thought and prolonged life. |