Can you bite through a human finger as easily as a carrot?

Can you bite through a human finger as easily as a carrot?

Go and get a carrot from the fridge and try it yourself.

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Published: October 22, 2022 at 10:00 am

Definitely not. Bite the carrot and then bite your own finger just as hard. It will hurt, but you won’t even break the skin on your finger.

Could you bite your own finger off, if you really wanted to? At the knuckle, possibly, but it would be very difficult. A 2012 study of hand injuries from electric windows in carsfound that an average of 1,485Newtons of force wasrequired just to fracture a human finger. This is about twice the maximum bite force you can exert and about 10 times the force exerted when chewing normally.

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Asked by: Ryan Young, Middlesbrough

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