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BROMELAIN BROMELAIN 500MG 60 tabs SKU:78-60351 Competitors Price $15.99 Our Price $11.95 Quantity:

AMERICAN HEALTH


Bromelain is a proteolytic enzyme mix in pineapple fruit and stem. American Health Bromelain displays a number of biochemical activities such as protein digestion, absorption of nutrients, fights inflammation, reduces swelling, inhibits fibrinolysis, cellulites, and diabetic ulcers.

 Bromelain is the collective term for enzymes (principally proteolytic enzymes) derived from the ripe and unripe fruit, as well as the stem and leaves, of the pineapple plant, Ananas comosus, a member of the Bromeliaceae family. Commercial bromelain is typically stem bromelain. Bromelain is mainly comprised of cysteine proteases, with smaller amounts of acid phosphatase, peroxidase, amylase and cellulase. Bromelain contains at least four distinct cysteine proteases. The principal stem protease is called stem bromelain or stem bromelain protease. Two additional proteases found in the stem are called ananain and comosain. Fruit bromelain is the name given to the principal protease found in the fruit.

Pineapple has been used as a folk medicine by the natives of the tropics for centuries. It has been used as a digestive aid, as a cleansing agent to improve the texture of the skin, and to promote the healing of wounds. It is used commercially in certain cosmetics and as a meat tenderizer and dietary supplement.

Bromelain may have digestant activity and there is research suggesting that it may have wound healing, anti-inflammatory, antidiarrheal and anticarcinogenic effects, as well. An interesting side, is that pineapple workers often have their fingerprints almost completely obliterated due to the proteolytic action of bromelain.

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