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.
Â· just now. Report Abuse. Starch is digested to a small degree by the enzyme amylase secreted in the mouth with the saliva but mainly by pancreatic lipase secreted into the small intestine. It breaks down starch to two glucose units called maltose.tarch is broken down by a special enzyme called amylase, into smller particles of glucose... Nutrients (one being glucose) are absorbed from the inside of the small intestine into the bloodstream and carried to the sites in the body where they are needed. Ady Paddy Â· 7 years ago.