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.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The digestion of starch starts in the mouth! When you put a potato chip on your tongue and leave it sit there for a little while it starts to dissolve! that's because it is mostly starch.In your mouth is something called salivary amylase-this breaks down amylose/starch.We need salivary amylase to break down the foods the moment they enter our mouth so that we can break down the food that gets stuck in our teeth to avoid bacteria and infection.t is digested from the mouth to the butt. Saliva starts the digestion. It is digested by enzymes called amylase (produced by the salivary glands), that turn starch into gluco â¦ se, so that it can be easily absorbed by capillaries when the chyme (food leaving the stomach) gets to the small intestine.