Nonsense, “represents.” Talk about doctrine made up of whole cloth. Scripture nowhere says the Eucharist merely “represents” His body...it says the exact opposite. This is purely the doctrine of men and not God.
Christ uses metaphors in some places,and he doesn’t in others? Looking at the whole context of John 6 (read the Greek), the institution narratives, and the Pauline epistles, it strains credulity to infer that he was being figurative.
Given that it was actually bread he held, bread left from the passover meal, “represents” is the only reasonable meaning to his words.