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Definitely not. Bite the carrot and then bite your own finger just as hard. It will hurt, but you won\u2019t even break the skin on your finger.<\/p>\n
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 cars\u00a0found that an average of 1,485\u00a0Newtons of force was\u00a0required<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Asked by: Ryan Young, Middlesbrough<\/strong><\/p>\n To submit your questions email us at questions@sciencefocus.com (don\u2019t forget to include your name and location)<\/em><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Luis Villazon Published: Saturday, 03 September 2022 at 12:00 am Definitely not. Bite the carrot and then bite your own finger just as hard. It will hurt, but you won\u2019t even break the skin on your finger. Could you bite your own finger off, if you really wanted to? At the knuckle, possibly, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17071,"template":"","categories":[30],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/can-you-bite-through-a-human-finger-as-easily-as-a-carrot.jpg",1200,511,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/can-you-bite-through-a-human-finger-as-easily-as-a-carrot-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/can-you-bite-through-a-human-finger-as-easily-as-a-carrot-300x128.jpg",300,128,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/can-you-bite-through-a-human-finger-as-easily-as-a-carrot-768x327.jpg",768,327,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/can-you-bite-through-a-human-finger-as-easily-as-a-carrot-1024x436.jpg",800,341,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/can-you-bite-through-a-human-finger-as-easily-as-a-carrot.jpg",1200,511,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/can-you-bite-through-a-human-finger-as-easily-as-a-carrot.jpg",1200,511,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Luis Villazon Published: Saturday, 03 September 2022 at 12:00 am Definitely not. Bite the carrot and then bite your own finger just as hard. It will hurt, but you won\u2019t even break the skin on your finger. Could you bite your own finger off, if you really wanted to? At the knuckle, possibly, but…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/17070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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