BIOTECHNOLOGY

Natural Enzymes
In the last two decades, there have been an increasing number of reports indicating that judicious use of enzymes and enzyme bearing products can make a positive impact on animal nutrition. Biotechnology can vastly improve digestion and your pets’ well-being. Enzymes are “biological catalysts” which means they can increase the rate of a chemical reaction. The chemical reaction can be related to digestion of proteins, fat and carbohydrates.

WHERE DO ENZYMES COME FROM?
Enzymes have been isolated from different types of living organisms such as “beneficial bacteria” like Bacillus subtilis and Aspergillus niger. These micro-organisms have been used for hundreds, even thousands of years, in the fermentation of cheese, alcohol, corn syrup, yogurt and other foods.

Probiotics are beneficial friendly microflora preparations. They produce inhibitory anti-pathogenic substances such as acidolin and lactic acid. They also produce a variety of enzymes both metabolic and digestive in nature, which help regulate the pH and absorption of intestinal bolus. NUTRIENCE provides a source of added enzymes: dried corn fermentation soluble product.

WHAT ARE THEY?
BACILLUS SUBTILIS
NUTRIENCE uses a thermal-resistant (temperature resistant) Bacillus subtilis, which provide enzymes such as hemi-cellulase, amylase, protease and beta-glucanase. However, the main enzyme produced is amylase to help digest carbohydrates that come from corn and rice.

All of the other enzyme groups are secondary in importance and considered satellites. These enzymes can work at a pH of 6 or even 5.5, contrary to amylase which is secreted by the salivary glands that work without exception in an alkaline condition pH of 11-12. Normally starch is submitted to a first hydrolysis (digestion) when food is properly chewed and permitted to be impregnated with salivary amylase.

Cats and Dogs usually do not chew much and limit their efficiency to digest starch. The addition of amylase to the ration helps dogs and cats assimilate complex carbohydrates such as starch contained in corn and rice.

ASPERGILLUS NIGER
The Aspergillus niger produces a proteolytic enzyme which by nature is acid stable. This means that the protease (enzyme digesting protein) can start the digestive effect even in the stomach where the pH is acidic. By contrast, protease from Bacillus subtilis and Aspergillus oryzea can hydrolyze protein in an alkaline environment only working most effectively in the small and large intestine. The overall effect is an enhanced ability to digest protein.

ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE
The Aspergillus oryzae produces an alkaline proteolytic enzyme that has the characteristics of working in an alkaline environment like a natural enzyme. This enzyme will support the work naturally done in the intestinal tract.