Imagine you sitting in an eatery with your friends and your
crush and suddenly in the middle of the meal a loud belch escapes from your
mouth, pretty embarrassing, init?
Burps or belches are simply the sound of gas leaving your
body, gas you swallow while eating or drinking. If you're drinking pop with
your meal, you're also swallowing another gas - carbon dioxide which is full of
bubbles. Those bubbles in your body don't just float around. They need to go
somewhere. Extra gas escapes from the stomach, travels up the esophagus and
comes out the mouth.
Gas can quickly escape which is why we can't always cover
our mouth in time.
So here are interesting facts about belching...