Vegetable Digestive Enzymes from New Roots Herbal helps replenish your body's natural vegetable digestive enzymes, which we lose in cooked and processed foods. These enzymes are used to digest fats, proteins, carbohydrates, sugars, minerals, grains and fibers.
In its natural, raw, unprocessed state, the food you eat contains, in addition to its many nutrients, the enzymes you need to break it down. Most of us follow a diet of mainly cooked foods, and digestive enzymes are extremely sensitive to heat. In fact, they are more vulnerable to heat than vitamins, and are destroyed by any heat source above 48°C (118°F); imagine what cooking does to digestive enzymes and your digestion. Digestive enzymes are also destroyed by pasteurization, canning and microwave cooking.