Eating

Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food. In biology, this is typically done to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and nutrients and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive – carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus.

Extends: [Eating behaviors](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Eating behaviors), Dining, [Food and drink](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Food and drink), Nutrition, Physiology