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The Ideal and Reality of "Fruit Enzyme"
Fashion women always like to do their own beauty, slimming, detoxification and other products. "Fruit enzyme" is quite popular now. Fruit has been very popular, and "enzyme" has added a bit of "high-tech" flavor. Coupled with "self-control", it is naturally touted by ladies.
However, I have to pour a big pot of cold water: this thing is really unreliable.
"Enzyme" is a Japanese word, which was first introduced into Taiwan Province Province and then moved to the mainland. In fact, in standardized Chinese, it has long had a formal name-enzyme. Enzymes are indispensable catalysts in most life activities, and the lack of various enzymes often leads to big or small problems.
The most common deception of health care products is: this thing is very important to the body, and you need to supplement it. Some ingredients, such as sanitary elements or minerals, will be effective if they are really lacking. However, even if there is a real lack of enzymes, if supplemented by oral administration, it can only be a beautiful ideal-it is even more illusory for the most appealing functions such as beauty, slimming and detoxification. This is because the enzyme is a kind of protein with catalytic activity, and its activity is based on the complete structure of protein. General protein, eat into the stomach, through the acidic environment of gastric juice, and then to the invasion of gastrointestinal digestive enzymes, almost no one can keep the whole body. And even if there is a whole body, if you want to play a role, you have to happen to absorb it directly into the blood. As long as there is a little sign of this enzyme, it will be a major discovery in biology, not just in marketing.
The so-called "fruit enzyme" is made by adding sugar to a certain fruit, sealing and fermenting, and finally getting the product. This is actually a simple fermentation process: the added sugar and the sugar in the fruit provide the "staple food" for the growth of bacteria, and together with other nutrients in the fruit, the bacteria carried on the fruit get living space and can live and work in peace. In the metabolism of bacteria, sugar is converted into wine, lactic acid, acetic acid and so on. And produce various enzymes.
It is not impossible to call these enzymes "fruit enzymes". The problem is that under this simple "self-made" condition, it is impossible to choose the kind of bacteria and analyze the enzymes produced. Basically, we eat according to the weather, and we are what we meet. If oral administration of these enzymes can really have any effect, then you should consider: there are all kinds of bacteria in nature, why do you have to produce only the enzymes for slimming, beautifying and detoxifying for you as you expect, and not give you some enzymes that are fattening, blackening or even sick? No matter what kind of "high-grade fruit" is used, bacteria are actually ignorant. They only know "chemical components"-sugar, amino acids, cellulose, minerals ... Children think that they can get their favorite enzymes with their favorite fruits, which is basically a fairy tale idea.
In fact, this "self-control" process is not new. If you change the fruit into green vegetables or mustard greens, what you get is called sauerkraut; If you change the fruit into vegetables and add a lot of water, what you get is called kimchi; If you change the fruit into ripe soybeans, you get soy sauce; If you change the fruit into mature glutinous rice and add carefully selected distiller's yeast, what you get is called distiller's yeast ... These traditional technologies have been tried and tested for hundreds of years or even longer, and if they are strictly observed, it is impossible to produce harmful ingredients. Compared with them, "fruit enzyme" is more uncertain.
If we don't consider the sense of participation in the process of making "fruit enzyme" and the psychological pleasure it brings, only from the material point of view, the "fruit enzyme" made in this way should be regarded as a good character without eating problems, and slimming beauty and detoxification can only be a pure wish. For the sake of nutrition and health, it is much wiser to eat fruit directly.
However, this self-fermentation operation also has its own advantages. For example, kitchen waste, many of which are abandoned vegetables. In supporting microbial fermentation, the effect is not very good because of its low sugar content. However, there are always industrious bacteria that thrive on these barren lands, and in turn make them fall apart and become organic fertilizers. This not only reduces the difficulty of garbage collection, transportation and centralized treatment, but also can be used to grow flowers and vegetables, which can be regarded as turning waste into treasure. In foreign countries, there are many containers specially used for this fermentation, which makes this way of treating kitchen waste more convenient and clean.
If you want to summarize:
First, whether it is pure enzyme produced by high technology or fruit enzyme made by hand without additives, it is expected that after eating it, "beauty", "slimming" and "detoxification" will all be daydreaming.
Second, the so-called "fruit enzyme" is actually just a complex mixture obtained by fruit fermentation. Do it well, like fruit wine or sauerkraut; It's just a pile of organic fertilizer if it's not done well. There may be many kinds of enzymes, but they can't be controlled and can't tell what functions those enzymes can have.
Thirdly, this fermentation method is suitable for treating kitchen waste, and the obtained product is a good fertilizer.
Fourth, if you want to play the positive role of fruit in health, eating fruit is the most direct, simple and effective way. What kind of "fruit enzyme" is made can only be used as a game and pastime at most, which is meaningless to health.
(This article was published in Outlook Oriental Weekly)
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