During digestion, food is firstly converted into ______.

The term bolus applies to this mixture of food and solutions, until they are passed into the stomach. The food that has been chewed and mixed in the mouth with saliva, is known as bolus. Chewing helps to reduce food particles to a size readily swallowed and saliva adds digestive enzymes, water and mucus, that help chemically to reduce food particles, hydrate them for taste and lubricate them, for easy swallowing.