Description
The human intestinal tract contains seven enzymes that split dietary disaccharides into free monosaccharides. Until now, commercially available enzyme products contained enzyme ingredients that had the activity of only some of these disaccharidase enzymes. One in particular, however, sucrase-isomaltase complex, was only partially represented in these products. Invertase is present in these products to hydrolyze sucrose to yield glucose and fructose, and to hydrolyze other complex sugars that contain fructose, so it acts as a sucrase enzyme. The isomaltase fraction of that human enzyme is not represented because there is no commercially available form of isomaltase in the world.
