Danisco's CEO said in a statement Monday that DuPont's offer is the best that the company, which began as a sugar company and shifted in 2009 to products that range from food components to industrial enzymes, can expect.

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Advocates of raw milk hold that pasteurization kills enzymes that make food digestible and bacteria that contribute to a healthy immune system.

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These fluids contain enzymes that break down food as part of the digestive process.

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It produces hormones and enzymes that help digest food.

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Gallstone pancreatitis is a condition in which a gallstone blocks a duct of the pancreas, a gland that produces enzymes that aid in the digestion of food.

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The idea that special enzymes could be engineered into plants, to make food derived from them easier to digest, is more speculative.

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But scientists at the University of California, San Diego, say they are the first to consider how the enzymes in the gut, which normally digest our food, could play a key role in this process.

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He ran Genencor --which produces a variety of mostly industrial enzymes--from late 2002 until it was bought by Danish food ingredient group Danisco in February this year.

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One is it increases the proportion of the nutrients in the food that can be digested, and it does that basically by opening them up to be accessible to enzymes, it denatures proteins for instances, unraveling them and exposing them to the action of snipping enzymes.

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