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The mouth itself doesn't actually digest anything. Instead, salivary amylase released by the salivary glands is released into the oral cavity to break down starches.

The same is true for the intestine where pancreatic amylase from the pancreas is used to break complex sugars into small disaccharides which are ultimately broken into monosaccharides by disacharidase.

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