Bb

• Stomach


  The low pH inactivates salivary amylase
• Although there is more mechanical digestion in the stomach, there is a little chemical digestion of carbohydrates here
• Small Intestine


  Most Carbohydrate digestion occurs
• Pancreatic amylase


  Enzyme secreted from the pancreas into small intestine
• Pancreatic amylase


  Breaks starch down to small oligosaccharides (containing 3 to 10 glucose molecules) and maltose (disaccharides)
• Starch (Amylose)


  1. Pancreatic Amylase

  2. Oligosaccharide

  3. Maltose