In sham-eating experiments, food is chewed and swallowed by the subjects, but rather than passing down the esophagus into their stomachs, it goes directly:

(a) into their bloodstream
(b) out of the body through a tube
(c) into their intestines
(d) into their colons


(b) out of the body through a tube

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