: the act or process of taking in something for or as if for digestion : the act or process of ingesting something A Cochrane review showed that ingestion of cranberry products may decrease the number of symptomatic urinary tract infections in women …—

What is mean by ingestion of food?

n. The act of taking food and drink into the body by the mouth. The taking in of particles by a phagocytic cell.

What is ingestion in simple words?

Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism. In animals, it normally is accomplished by taking in a substance through the mouth into the gastrointestinal tract, such as through eating or drinking.