Plant-based Digestive Enzyme Suggestion?

"I am looking for plant-based digestive enzymes that can be mixed with
meals/smoothies and work over a wide pH range. I found the following"

Why bother?

jaym1212 said:

I am looking for plant-based digestive enzymes that can be mixed with
meals/smoothies and work over a wide pH range. I found the following
so far:

ActiveZymes (www.americannutrition.com/activezymes.htm)
55,000 HUT - Protease 6.0
30,000 HUT - Protease 4.5
35 SAP - Protease 3.0
3,400 DU - Amylase
225 FCC LU - Lipase AN
240 caps for $90

Ultra-Zyme Plus (www.throppsnutrition.com/ps_ultrazyme.htm)
75,000 HUT - Protease
25 SAP - Acid Stable Protease
12,000 SKB - Amylase
8,000 LU - Lipase
270 capules for $48

Ultimate Enzymes (www.aaaab.com/enzymes/index.html)
75,000 HUT - Protease
15,000 SKB - Amylase
5,000 LU - Lipase
270 Capsule for $45

Of the above, supposedly ActiveZymes is the best, but the Ultra-Zyme
seems to be a better value. Could someone recommend better ones?

Raw, unpastoerized sauerkraut?
http://www.belandorganicfoods.com/kartheins_fermented.html

Jan

Quoted message said:

"I am looking for plant-based digestive enzymes that can be mixed with
meals/smoothies and work over a wide pH range. I found the following"

Why bother?

My skin reacts to some foods such as milk, citrus, soy beans, peanuts,
citrus, cantaloupe, etc. I didn't react to these foods when I was
younger. I am assuming that some food components are making it past
the digestive lining and into general blood circulation. I am hoping
breaking down foods to their simplest components might alleviate the
reactions. Does this sound plausible?

The only plant-based enzymes that could be useful that I can think of are
venus fly-trap enzymes.

You see, almost all plants don't eat food. And so they won't make digestive
enzymes.

The only thing the digestive enzymes you are trying to buy will eat is your
wallet.

Jeff

Jeff said:

The only thing the digestive enzymes you are trying to buy will eat is your
wallet.

There is some evidence of a benefit. Search "oral enzyme" in PubMed. There
are a few articles in Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2001 issues 45 and 47,
Michael Donaldson discusses many them in his recent cancer-diet paper.
PMID: 15496224