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The digestive process begins in your mouth. Some of the substances in the food -- sugars would be one category -- are completely broken into absorbable nutrients by saliva. So, for the bread -- a food containing chemicals that are chemically modified by saliva -- there will be chemical interaction in your mouth.

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