digestion of starch start in the stomach
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Digestion of starch begins not in the stomach but in the mouth. When you start to chew your food in mouth it is mixed with saliva. The saliva supplies moisture, carbohydrate-digesting enzyme and amylase. Mouth is where the amylase in saliva begins to break down starch.
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digestion of starch actually starts from mouth.starch stir around the stomach and make a space called Chyma.In small intestine where pancreatic amylase is added to change the starch into Maltose.
then maltose breakdown into Glucose by maltase.
then the glucose is absorbed by the intestinal villi
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