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Digestive Enzymes
18 cards·by Ciara__Harding
Digestive Enzyme
Enzymes that break down food into usable material
Amylase
Breaks down carbohydrates, starches, and sugars which are prevalent in potatoes, fruits,
vegetable, and many snack foods.
Lactase
Breaks down lactose (milk sugars)
Diastase
Digests vegetable starch
Sucrase
Digests complex sugars and starches
Maltase
Digest disaccharides to monosaccharides (malt sugars)
Invertase
Breaks down sucrose (table sugar)
Glucoamylase
Breaks down starch to glucose
Alpha-glatosidae
Facilitates digestin of beans, legumes, seeds, roots, soy products, and underground stems
Protease
Breaks down proteins found in nuts, eggs, cheese, and meat
Pepsin
Breaks down proteins into peptides
Peptidase
Breaks down small peptide proteins to amino acids
Trypsin
Derived form animals pancreas, breaks down proteins
Alpha
chymotrypsin, an animal-derived enzyme, breaks down proteins
Bromelain
Derived from pineapple, breaks dwon a braod spectrum of proteins, has anti-inflammatory
properties, effective over a large pH range
Papain
Derived from raw papaya, broad range of substrates and pH, works well breaking down small and
large properties
Lipase
Breaks down fats found in most dairy products, nuts, oils, and meat
Cellulase
Breaks dwon cellulose, plant fiber; not found in humans