A guide to

Mechanical Digestion:

The Digestion of 01 mastication of the sandwich

with orange marmalade.

Sandwich with
Orange Marmalade
Salivary Digestion(ptyalin):
conversion of the complex
02 carbohydrates in the
sandwich to simple sugars.

End of Salivary Digestion:

MALTOSE
Limited digestion of
03 carbohydrates from the
sandwich.

Breakdown of most Carbohydrates from

SITE OF DIGESTIVE PROCES: the sandwich (amylopsin):
1-2 MOUTH 04 Polysaccharides breakdown into
disaccharides and disaccharides are
3 STOMACH
further digested into monosaccharides.
4 SMALL INTESTINE
5 LARGE INTESTINE
MALTOSE (maltase) = 2 GLUCOSE
Digestion of Fiber from the
FIBER SUCROSE (sucrase) = GLUCOSE &
05 bread used in the
FRUCTOSE
sandwich.