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Nutrition Science and Everyday Application - beta v 0.1

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DIGESTION AND ABSORPTION OF CARBOHYDRATES 189<br />

CARBOHYDRATE DIGESTION<br />

In the image below, follow the numbers to see what happens to carbohydrates at each site<br />

of digestion.<br />

Figure 4.9. The digestive system<br />

1 – Mouth or Oral Cavity<br />

As you chew your bite of pizza, you’re using mechanical digestion to begin to break it into<br />

smaller pieces <strong>and</strong> mix it with saliva, produced by several salivary gl<strong>and</strong>s in the oral cavity.<br />

Some enzymatic digestion of starch occurs in the mouth, due to the action of the enzyme<br />

salivary amylase. This enzyme starts to break the long glucose chains of starch into shorter<br />

chains, some as small as maltose. (The other carbohydrates in the bread don’t undergo any<br />

enzymatic digestion in the mouth.)

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