Papain Enzyme      

Introduction : The juice of the fruit is regarded to have medicinal property in India, Mexico, West Indies. Papain enzyme is a protein with papain proteinase, chymopapain and lysozyme. Enzymes accelerate reactions within body cells. In the human body, the pancreas usually produces enzymes that break down foods into nutrients that the body can use for energy and other functions.Frequently, papain is included in prescription as digestive enzymes to replace what individuals with conditions who cannot produce enzymes naturally.

Process of obtaining Papain : The latex is obtained by making incisions on the surface of the green fruits early in the morning and repeating every 4 or 5 days until the latex ceases to flow. The tool is of bone, glass, sharp-edged bamboo or stainless steel knife or raxor blade. Tappers hold a coconut shell, clay cup, or glass, porcelain or enamel pan beneath the fruit to catch the latex. The latex coagulates quickly.For best results,it is spread on fabric and oven-dried at a low temperature, then ground to powder to obtain Papain.

PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING OF PAPAIN FROM LATEX :

Papain Enzyme : Carica is a genus of about 20 species of evergreen trees native to tropical America. They all produce a acrid milky sap. The latex of the papaya plant and its green fruits contains two proteolytic enzymes, papain and chymopapain. The latter is most abundant but papain is twice as potent. The Papain is a powerful digestive of albuminoid substances and meat alblumen forming true peptones and like pepsin curdles milk. It has the extraordinary energetic action of hastening the decay of muscular fiber and nitrogenous substance exposed to its influence.

Benefits & Uses :

• Papain, from papaya fruit, active over a wide pH range helps the body digest proteins, fats and sugars, while amylase digests carbohydrates and sugars. By enhancing digestion, Papaya Enzyme help us get the most nutrition from the food we eat and may ease the bloating, gas and digestive disturbances that many people often experience after eating.

• The green fruit of papaya is the source of the enzyme papain, which is used in meat tenderizers and many other biologically active phyto chemicals.

• Papain, the proteolytic enzyme, has a wealth of industrial uses. Papain is used for degumming natural silk and wools before dying. To remove hair from hides during tanning and also used in the manufacture of rubber from Hevea.It is also used to extract the oil from tuna liver.

• In liquid preparations it has been used for reducing enlarged tonsils.

• Nearly 80% of American beer is treated with papain, which digests the precipitable protein fragments and then the beer remains clear on cooling.

• Papain imported in the U.S. is used for meat-tenderizers and chewing gums.

• Cosmetically it is used in some dentifrices, shampoos, and face-lifting preparations.

• Fruit and seed extracts have pronounced bactericidal activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Escherischia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Shigella flexneri.

• Recently, the FDA has cleared chymopapain for intradiscal injection in patients with documented herniated lumbar intervertebral discs whose signs and symptoms have not responded to conservative therapy over an adequate period of time.

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