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Q16-Does raw food stimulate enzyme secretion as much as cooked food?
Raw food does not stimulate enzyme secretion as much as cooked food. Less stomach acid is secreted when raw food is eaten. This permits food enzymes to operate for a longer period in the food-enzyme section of the stomach than when the meal consists of cooked food. Consequently, more digestion is performed by food enzymes. Thus, when we eat raw food, the enzymes in the raw food lessens the excessively high amounts of digestive enzymes that must be secreted by the pancreas and saliva to digest the food. Also, raw food enzymes are much less concentrated than pancreatic digestive enzymes. This means that digestion of a raw food meal takes more time. |
