Enzyme Questions and Answers

Q56-Are foods such as vitamins and minerals, blue green algae, green barley, HCL, and CoQ10 enzymes?

Vitamins and minerals are mostly considered co-enzymes.  A co-enzyme is dependent on the energy from another enzyme.  It combines with that enzyme to form another enzyme.

Blue green algae and chlorophyll products are nutritional foods and contain minerals, vitamins and enzymes because they are a plant food.  However, they do not have the digestive action of enzymes.

Hydrochloric acid (HCL) is a normal constituent of gastric juice in the human stomach.  Its main function in the body is to break down protein for digestion.  It is not an enzyme and does not act as an enzyme.

CoQ10 is actually a co-enzyme and was first isolated from beef heart.  Remember, this co-enzyme must unite with another enzyme to function.  This co-enzyme is necessary by the body and is made by the system.  It is used for something other than the plant enzyme we are speaking of it has no digestive ability.