>Date:    Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:13:31 -0400
>From:    Eric <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Containers
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>---releasing all the enzymes from their enzyme chain---
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>Could you explain what this can even mean?
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>Thanks
>
>Eric

This is a very simplistic view of a very complex issue

http://www.msgtruth.org/whatisit.htm

"Enzymes are simply proteins with interesting day jobs. Enzymes help make
things happen by helping to create other proteins and by helping break them
down too.   Enzymes are not straight chains, they are globular and clumpy,
because they are folded into intricate shapes like other proteins.  It is
these shapes that help them create and break down other proteins and
compounds."

Glutamate is a bound protein - it comes from an enzyme chain. When you cook
for long periods the enzyme chain breaks down and frees the components that
make up the chain. All protein or enzyme chains contain glutamate. So long
cooking will produce monosodium glutamate. This means the single salt of
glutamate. The body usually breaks the bound chain down during digestion to
release free glutamate - an excitory neurotransmitter and GABA an inhibitory
neurotransmitter - and also makes glutamine. When food has been cooked for
long periods (in water - eg hydrolysed) the enzyme chains break down and frees
glutamate from its bound chain. Cooking causes chemical reactions and changes
the molecular structure of food.

Hope that helps a bit

Fran

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