HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -Pepsin is a stomach enzyme that serves to digest proteins found in ingested food. Gastric chief cells secrete pepsin as an inactive zymogen called pepsinogen. Parietal cells within the stomach lining secrete hydrochloric acid that lowers the pH of the stomach. A low pH (1.5 to 2) activates pepsin.

Detailed explanation-2: -An enzyme made in the stomach that breaks down proteins in food during digestion. Stomach acid changes a protein called pepsinogen into pepsin.

Detailed explanation-3: -The enzyme pepsin digests protein in the stomach. Further digestion and absorption take place in the small intestine.

Detailed explanation-4: -pepsin, the powerful enzyme in gastric juice that digests proteins such as those in meat, eggs, seeds, or dairy products.

Detailed explanation-5: -Protease (made in the pancreas; breaks down proteins)