Enzymes Keep the Process Moving

Take any food product and chances are that it contains at least one ingredient made from an enzyme. These unsung stars of food and beverage processing play important and diversified roles in the processing conditions (as catalysts that speed up chemical reactions) and characteristics and functions of the final product, and they go unnoticed by consumers. (Since enzymes do not function in the finished product, they are considered processing aids, not food additives, and therefore are not required…