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.
Though most starch digestion occurs in the small intestine through enzymatic action, minimal fermentation of starch occurs in the stomach and portions of the large intestine (the cecum and the colon). The end products of starch fermentation in the large intestine are volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and lactic acid. In contrast to starch, plant fiber is digested entirely by fermentation, which results in the production of VFAs. Fermentation of plant fiber occurs in the hindgut of the horse. Not all animals are anatomically similar to horses. Others possess distinctive digestive tracts that determine where fermentation takes place.