The phrase "avoid the ingestion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to advise someone against consuming something, often in health or safety-related discussions.
Example: "To ensure your safety, please avoid the ingestion of any unknown substances."
Alternatives: "refrain from consuming" or "steer clear of eating".
Adult mice of this strain were found to avoid the ingestion of ethanol solutions in concentrations as low as 2.5 per cent2.
Nevertheless, carps are not able to avoid the ingestion of toxic cyanobacteria and their toxins in eutrophicated lakes (Tencalla et al. 1994).
Taste 2 receptors are involved in the bitter taste sensing and help to avoid the ingestion of potentially poisonous and harmful substances [ 22].
Subjects were also asked to avoid the ingestion of alcohol, caffeine-containing products, and heavy meals for at least 4 hours, and to refrain from strenuous activity (e.g., cycling, running) for at least 12 hours before testing.
Avoiding the ingestion of toxic substances because they produce headache could result in improved health and evolutionary advantage, compared to individuals without headache who might overuse such substances and thus suffer undesirable consequences.
The grazing by O. similis observed in this study might have occurred due to A. tamarense offered as the sole diet, since Oithona present in situ avoids the ingestion of toxic Alexandrium [32].
Next to sequestration, other mechanisms have evolved to cope with the toxic effects of HCN, such as avoiding the ingestion of cyanogenic compounds or detoxifying HCN upon plant release (Despres et al., 2007).
The absence of the umami taste in vampire bats (genus Desmodus) is not unexpected because the sense of taste in vampire bats is generally poorly developed; they do not even learn taste aversion, which is crucial for avoiding the ingestion of harmful food (Ratcliffe et al. 2003).
We instructed them to avoid the consumption of over the counter prenatal antioxidant vitamins and asked about non-study related vitamin ingestion at each visit.
It was argued that these capacities are adaptive in an ecological context because learning to associate the sensory cues of a food plant with its post-ingestional consequences could allow a polyphagous herbivore like the grasshopper, which may contact a wide variety of plants differing in the toxins they contain, to avoid or limit the ingestion of toxic foodplants [48].
Every organism needs to avoid parasites and prevent the ingestion of harmful foods (citrus fruits can be poisonous to canines).
