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.
Before anything can happen in the stomach, digestion of your food starts in the mouth. When you bite into food, your mouth releases an enzyme, salivary amylase, in the saliva that begins breaking down the food, making it softer and easier to swallow and initiating the digestion of starch.fter some simple digestion in the mouth, the food is pushed down the esophagus and into the stomach. The stomach plays a necessary role in the digestion of protein and is considered your body's blender, churning the food to make absorption easier for the intestines.