When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase in your saliva, break down starch into sugar to give us the energy we need. Then protease enzymes in your stomach break ...

It could be yeast (candida) or bacteria, like strep or staph. AC happens when the skin breaks down from a buildup of saliva, ...

plastic-eating enzymes from the saliva of wax worms. These biological agents break down polyethylene, a widely used plastic that takes years to degrade under normal circumstances. Wax worm enzymes ...