Digestive enzymes are substances that help you digest your food. They are secreted (released) by the salivary glands and cells lining the stomach, pancreas, and small intestine.Digestive enzymes do this by splitting the large, complex molecules that make up proteins, carbohydrates, and fats into smaller ones. This allows the nutrients from these foods to be easily absorbed into your blood and carried through your body.
Digestive enzymes are released when we:
- 1. Anticipate eating
- 2. Smell and taste food
- 3. Go through the digestive process
The most important digestive enzymes are:
- 1. Amylase
- 2. Maltase
- 3. Lactase
- 4. Lipase
- 5. Proteases
- 6. Sucrase
Amylase: Amylase is important for digesting carbohydrates. It breaks down starches into sugars.
Lipase: Lipase is responsible for the breakdown of fats into fatty acids and glycerol (simple sugar alcohol). It's produced in small amounts by your mouth and stomach, and in larger amounts by your pancreas.
Pepsin: Pepsin is secreted by the stomach to break down proteins into peptides, or smaller groupings of amino acids. Those amino acids are then either absorbed or broken down further in the small intestine.
Papaya: Proteases (papain) Helps digest proteins and is a popular meat tenderizer
Diastase : The role of this enzyme is to break up complex carbohydrates like starch into smaller sugars that can be more easily metabolised.
Cellulases : cellulases can increase aroma and taste in food items, provides the essential fibre which helps the digestive system. This type of fibre is called insoluble fibre. Humans are benefited from it as it helps in moving the food fast through the digestive system.
Activated charcoal: supplements in hopes of detoxing their bodies and treating a variety of ailments, including diarrhea, gas, kidney problems,
Probiotics: Probiotics are friendly bacteria that may help support healthy digestion and offer other benefits to your overall health.
- • Alpha amylase (25mg)
- • Bifidobacterium bifidum (80 Million Spores)
- • Bifidobacterium longum (80 Million Spores)
- • Cellulase (8mg)
- • Charcoal (50 Mg)
- • Clostridium butyricum (80 Million Spores)
- • Fructooligosaccharides (50 mg)
- • Fungal diastase (12mg)
- • Lactobacillus acidophilus (1 Billion Spores)
- • Lactobacillus rhamnosus (80 Million Spores)
- • Lactobacillus sporogenes (80 Million Spores)
- • Lipase (25mg)
- • Papain (20mg)
- • Pepsin (10 mg)
- • Saccharomyces boulardii (80 Million Spores)
- • Streptococcus thermophilus (80 Million Spores)