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Many dietary supplements contain digestive enzymes the manufacturers claim are necessary to digest food properly. What will happen to these enzymes in the stomach? Will the enzymes continue to function once they have reached the small intestine? Why or why not?

Solution

Dietary supplement provide the nutrients when pancreas are unable to provide sufficient. In some case person is taking the unhealthy diet which lacking the required essential nutrients. Last cause of low level of essential enzyme is age factor. These supplements have the nutrients which get absorbed inside body.

No, Proteins get digested in the stomach, so enzymes will also get digested in stomach by proteases.

These amino acid sequences will get further digested using the pepsin. These small chains of amino acids will get absorbed by the small intestine. So these proteins (enzymes) will not help in the digestion of food because they are already broken down in stomach.