Question

What is the most important digestive enzyme in the stomach?

Answer 1

Digestive enzymes:

1. Digestive enzymes are the proteins that aid in the better breakdown and digestion of food by breaking larger molecules into smaller molecules that are easy to absorb.
2. The proteolytic enzymes involved in the digestion of food are pepsin, trypsin, chymotrypsin, etc.

Pepsin :

1. Pepsin is the most crucial digestive enzyme in the stomach which breaks down the proteins into peptides and smaller units of amino acids.
2. Pepsin is secreted by gastric chief cells as an inactive zymogen which is known as pepsinogen.