It is alkaline and contains a ferment called ptyalin. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition] Reference
The saliva, which contains ptyalin, is secreted in the mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference
Humans: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains. From Wordnik.com. [Request for help promoting our new book | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
In the saliva is the ptyalin, which begins to digest the starch. From Wordnik.com. [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference
Herbivores: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains. From Wordnik.com. [Request for help promoting our new book | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
The diastase of the malt has the same action on starch as the ptyalin in the saliva. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition] Reference
Amylopsin is much more powerful and rapid than the ptyalin of the saliva, especially on uncooked starch. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition] Reference
This enables the ptyalin of the saliva to continue its action for a longer time than if the starch were eaten first. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
The ptyalin changes starch into a form of sugar (maltose), while the water in the saliva dissolves the soluble portions of the food. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
We are not certain that nicotin ruins ptyalin; we are certain that the functions of other organs are vicarious of those of the salivary glands. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
The action of the ptyalin commences with great promptness, and sugar has been detected, it is said, within half a minute after the starch was placed in the mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Because it is absorbed in the body directly (soluble), it is separated from other carbohydrates (starches) which require degestive reactions, starting in the mouth with the action of the enzyme, ptyalin, in the saliva. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
The saliva contains ptyalin, a ferment converting starch into sugar, and it also serves to moisten the food as it is ground up by the cheek teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
In the second instance the same kind of food is so thoroughly mixed with the ptyalin in the saliva that whatever is eaten becomes of value as protein or fat or some other food element. From Wordnik.com. [How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves"] Reference
Among the better known of these non-vital ferments are rennet, the milk-curdling enzym; diastase or ptyalin of the saliva, the starch-converting enzym; pepsin and trypsin, the digestive ferments of the animal body. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying] Reference
As in the case of the anthropoid ape, the human digestive system is twelve times the length of the body; our skin has millions of tiny pores to evaporate water and cool the body by sweating; we drink water by suction like all other vegetarian animals; our tooth and jaw structure is vegetarian; and our saliva is alkaline and contains ptyalin for predigestion of grains. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Long-distance journeys are out of fashion: Global warming is causing evolutionary changes in bird migration] Reference
Then let us get on the real topic at hand, enzymes There are three types of enzymes The two types are naturally produced by our body they are digestive and metabolic enzymes while food enzymes are the ones found in food Metabolic enzymes function to speed up the chemical reaction within the cells for detoxification and energy production purposes Metabolic enzymes enable us to hear, see, feel, move and think Every organ we have, every tissue we have and all the 100 trillion cells we have in our body all depend upon the reaction of metabolic enzymes and their energy factor Meanwhile, digestive enzymes are secreted along the digestive tract and their function is to break down food into nutrients and waste This process allows nutrients to be absorbed inside the blood stream and separate the waste to be discarded Some human digestive enzymes include ptyalin, pepsin, trypsin, lipase, amylase and protease Food enzymes are taken by the body from the raw foods that we eat Raw foods naturally co. From Wordnik.com. [We Blog A Lot] Reference
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