The invention relates to a swallowing stimulation system having a swallowing stimulator which is designed for triggering an act of swallowing in a patient.According to the invention, the swallowing system has an operating unit with operating elements for receiving user inputs, whereby the operating elements are allocated to different possible physical properties of a food, such that a user can allocate the consistency of a particular food by means of the operating elements to at least one of at least two categories.The operating unit is designed to generate a control signal corresponding to a user input for the swallowing stimulator, and the swallowing stimulator is designed so that a stimulus for triggering an act of swallowing is formed as a function of the control signal.
