What are digestive enzymes?

Digestive enzymes help the body break down food so the body can assimilate the nutrients. Enzymes are present in raw food, but cooked food has an absence of enzymes. The body must use it’s own limited enzymes to break down cooked food and the body’s enzyme producing organs are worked overtime to help digest the food.

Enzyme supplements are commonly used by dogs that have compromised ability to digest food, either from a digestive disorder or disease like EPI (exocrine pancreatic insufficiency).