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Is pepsin enzyme produced by stomach same as pepsin found in papaya?
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Good question: The enzymes are not exact, but they act similarly. Papya has been a traditional aid to digestion. However, how equivalent the papaya pepsin is to your natural enzyme I do not know.
Answered 9/15/2017
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