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.
Report Abuse. Most of Chemical digestion takes place in the stomach, some occurs in the mouth, (ex: breakdown of starches in mouth by enzymes in saliva) Absorption occurs in the small intestines. Structures in the sm intestines called villi and microvilli provide a large surface area for absorption of nutrients.