What is an enzyme?

Enzymes are products with specific bioactive components (including polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, protein, peptides, amino acids and vitamins) made by animals, plants and fungi with or without auxiliary materials.

Enzymes were first introduced into Taiwan Province Province from Japan, and then from Taiwan Province Province to the mainland. In fact, it also has a more professional name "enzyme". Enzyme is a biocatalyst. Most enzymes are actually protein (a few are nucleic acids). Various enzymes exist widely in organisms, and many biochemical reactions are carried out in full swing under the catalysis of corresponding enzymes.

The light industry standard "Guide to Classification of Enzyme Products" issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China defines an enzyme as a product with specific bioactive components made from animals, plants and fungi with or without auxiliary materials.

The bioactive components of enzymes include various nutrients provided by plant raw materials and microorganisms, functional chemical components of plants in natural plants, and some physiologically active substances produced by fermentation, including amino acids, peptides, vitamins, polysaccharides, polyphenols, flavonoids, alcohols, esters, enzymes, mineral elements, organic acids and various probiotics.

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Enzymes are not reliable for losing weight

The burning of fat needs to be carried out in cells. These "fat-clearing and slimming" enzymes in enzymes cannot safely enter cells from the outside.

First of all, enzymes are edible, unlike insulin, which can be injected. What you eat in your stomach is not determined by your subjective will. In fact, after eating all protein, you should first "drip" it into your stomach for digestion.

The second level is pepsin in the stomach, which is a big "nemesis" in protein. It can preliminarily digest the eaten protein, that is to say, the structure of protein has been dismembered to a certain extent, and turning a big protein into a small protein is like cutting a cucumber into small pieces.

When the enzyme enters the intestine, it will pass through the third checkpoint, which is another "nemesis" of protein-enteroprotease. The role of intestinal protease is more "violent". It can cut protein into pieces until it becomes the smallest amino acid unit.

Therefore, the vast majority of protein basically disappeared after such a digestion and absorption pathway, and so did enzymes. Enzymes are not reliable for losing weight.