ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -You begin to digest carbohydrates the minute the food hits your mouth. The saliva secreted from your salivary glands moistens food as it’s chewed. Saliva releases an enzyme called amylase, which begins the breakdown process of the sugars in the carbohydrates you’re eating.

Detailed explanation-2: -Saliva contains special enzymes that help digest the starches in your food. An enzyme called amylase breaks down starches (complex carbohydrates) into sugars, which your body can more easily absorb. Saliva also contains an enzyme called lingual lipase, which breaks down fats.

Detailed explanation-3: -From the Mouth to the Stomach Saliva contains the enzyme, salivary amylase. This enzyme breaks the bonds between the monomeric sugar units of disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and starches. The salivary amylase breaks down amylose and amylopectin into smaller chains of glucose, called dextrins and maltose.

Detailed explanation-4: -Inside your small intestine is where the bulk of carbohydrate digestion occurs. A bicarbonate solution secreted from your pancreas buffers the acidic food mixture coming from your stomach, and the now-neutral environment of your small intestine allows several carbohydrate-digesting enzymes to get to work.

Detailed explanation-5: -Saliva gets mixed with the food having starch a form of carbohydrate and forms a bolus as we chew the food in our mouths. This helps in the lubrication of food and easy passage of the chewed food through the oesophagus to reach the stomach for further digestion.