from Enzyme Development Corporation
When EDC began producing enzymes in 1953, its original product was papain for beer chill proofing. This application was the original use for papain in the food industry. One of the first references to this application was from 1911. When beer is stored at refrigerated temperatures, the polyphenols and proteins in the beer form complex bonds, causing cloudiness in the …
If you’ve had the opportunity to look through our website, you should already know that papain comes from the water-soluble portion of the latex of Carica Papaya. Usually when we tell people that papain comes from the latex of the papaya we get the following questions: What portion of the papaya contains the latex? How was the enzyme extracted from …