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.
Starch digestion begins in the mouth. As food does not remain long in the mouth, only a little starch is digested by salivary amylase to maltose. No digestion of carbohydrates occurs in the stomach; only proteins are digested in the stomach.In the small intestine, starch is digested by pancreatic amylase into maltose, which is digested by maltase into glucose. Lactose is digested by lactase into glucose and galactose.Sucrose is digested by sucrase into glucose and fructose.The end products of carbohydrate digestion are simple sugars (glucose, fructose, and galactose) which can be absorbed.actose is digested by lactase into glucose and galactose. Sucrose is digested by sucrase into glucose and fructose.The end products of carbohydrate digestion are simple sugars (glucose, fructose, and galactose) which can be absorbed.