Question

evaluate this claim: “Raw foods contain all of the enzymes needed for these foods to be digested. Cooking foods destroys these enzymes, so if you eat cooked foods you should take digestive enzyme replacement pills to supply these enzymes to your body.”

Answer 1

Food enzymes are already present within the food we eat , food enzymes exist naturally in raw food , if the food is coooked , high temeparturre involved in the cooking process will destroy the enzymes. Most food , when it is uncooked it contains enough natural food enzymes to digest that food. Eating raw food is totally acceptable in some cases and quite unaccepatble in others. If we take a meal consisting of salad , steak, baked potato. there are likely enough food enzymes contained in the salad to digest it , but no extra enzyme available to digest baked potato and steak . Because steak and baed potato there are no food enzymes avaiable to digest the food so our body must take overr and eventually create the needed amount of digestive enzymes to handle the digestive task.