Essay On Enzymes In Food Processing

Enzymes used in food processing
Introduction:
In a week, every human being eats approximately 11 kg food. In food material chemical processes occur .it occur due to enzymes, basically question arise in our mind that what is enzymes? Some enzymes are used for food preparation, digestion, texture, and flavor etc.
What are enzymes?
Enzymes are catalyst that increases the rate of biochemical reaction. Enzymes are made up of proteins. Small quantity of enzymes increase rate of reaction tenfold. There are some factors which affect the rate of chemical reaction such as temperature, PH, enzyme concentration, inhibitors.
Background of food enzymes:
From tissues of animal’s food or edible plants enzymes are extracted. some are produced from microorganism such as (bacteria, fungi,

Other applications in food processing
Many other enzymes have application on beverages industry. there is one major enzyme that is used in the production of sweetener.
It produces sweetener of corn from amylase enzyme that give glucose, isofructose. fructose has double sweetener as compared to glucose.
Some enzymes are used in control quality of laboratories.
Some enzymes are used for checking the quality of raw material. Just like in wines and cider some enzymes are used for checking the quality either it is good or bad. enzyme kits are used which monitor the quality of raw material.
One potential application of enzymes is to keep beverages fresh. some enzymes are used which keep be beverages fresh. In this enzyme catalase enzyme are used which breakdown hydrogen peroxide in reaction.
Some enzymes are used for bleaching flours just like lipoxygenase.
Some enzyme are used for dark characteristic in chocolate, tea, coffe, coca etc. it is due to phenol oxidase.
Glucose oxidases are used for salad dressing, prevent browning in potatoes .
Pancreatin contains proteases enzymes which are used to make proteins more digestible.