Welcome to Annieâs Chamorro Kitchen! My name is Annie ~ food and I get along so well! Cooking and baking is more than a hobby for me ~ it's a passion. I come from the beautiful island of Guam, U.S.A., which is located in the beautiful southwest Pacific.
The digestion of different types of foods occurs in different areas of the digestive tract. Digestion of starch begins in the mouth with the chewing of food (mastication) and the production of amylases immediately breaking down certain starches.
1 Amylase digests starch molecules from the ends of the chains in two-glucose units, forming the disaccharide maltose. 2  Glycogen is also digested here. 3  in the membrane of the ileum enzymes attached to the epithelial cells complete the digestion of disaccharides to monosaccharides.hemistry of Digestion. 1. Digestion of Carbohydrates. The most abundant carbohydrate in the human diet is starch (in bread, potatoes, cereal, rice, pasta, biscuits, cake, etc), but there may also be a lot of sugar (mainly sucrose) and some glycogen (in meat).