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ptyalin

NOUN
  1. an amylase secreted in saliva

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  • This action is due to the _amylopsin_, (61) which is similar to ptyalin but is more vigorous. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
  • As the sign put it at the booth for Dogfish Head -- Delaware's ever-experimental and envelope-pushing brewery -- Chicha is "a traditional Peruvian corn beer brewed with molle tree seeds, strawberries, and organic purple corn that we chewed to allow the ptyalin enzyme in our saliva [to] convert starch into sugar pre-boil. Gregory Daurer: Imagine a Great Beer City (Part Three)
  • It is an equally well-established fact of science that when we chew a piece of bread or potato or any other carbohydrate/starch, ptyalin and other alkaline juices are immediately secreted into the food by the saliva in the mouth. The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity
  • [Footnote 27: Ptyalin and amylopsin are the ferments found in the mouth and intestines, respectively.] and in the digestive juices of the intestines [Footnote 28: Ptyalin and amylopsin are the ferments found in the mouth and intestines, respectively.] cause this change. School and Home Cooking
  • It has been established that, when sugar enters the mouth along with starch, the saliva secreted during mastication contains no ptyalin, thereby sabatoging starch digestion before it reaches the stomach. The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity
  • The saliva of carnivora contains no ptyalin and cannot predigest starches; that of vegetarian animals contains ptyalin for the predigestion of starches.
  • Humans: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains Request for help promoting our new book | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • * Meat-eaters: have acid saliva with no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains Request for help promoting our new book | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • As in the case of the anthropoid ape, the human digestive system is twelve times the length of the body; our skin has millions of tiny pores to evaporate water and cool the body by sweating; we drink water by suction like all other vegetarian animals; our tooth and jaw structure is vegetarian; and our saliva is alkaline and contains ptyalin for predigestion of grains. WN.com - Articles related to Long-distance journeys are out of fashion: Global warming is causing evolutionary changes in bird migration
  • Though many azotized substances in a state of decomposition exert a similar agency, yet it is possessed by _ptyalin_ in a much greater degree. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
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