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The Tulsa, Okla., man eventually discovered the book came from the Waco, Texas, drugstore where Dr Pepper was invented and includes a recipe titled 'D Peppers Pepsin Bitters.'
Archive 2009-05-03 Bill Crider 2009
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The enzyme or the active agent of this gastric juice is Pepsin.
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Pepsin along with hydrochloric acid starts the process of breakdown of proteins into amino-acids which can be easily absorbed.
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There are few of the enzymes whose names have been established by long usage such as Erepsin, Trypsin, Pepsin and Ptyalin.
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Pepsin works best in a stomach pH environment of about 2.
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Pepsin is the other major protein-digesting stomach acid.
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He added pepsin, a digestive enzyme, along with sugar and seltzer, to a kola-nut brew and sold it as a stomach tonic, Pepsin Cola.
THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007
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These druggists mixed up syrups into which they shot spritzes of seltzer water and turned them into soda pops; syrup made with coca-nuts (source of cocaine) in the case of Coca-Cola and Moxie Cola; syrups of pepsin n the case of Pepsi; and, as they say in Texas, a syrup made of peppers (black, red, cayenne) that got the druggist who invented it to being called Doctor Pepper.
Among the Simple PART 2 The Daily Growler 2006
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Is the cow Pepsin, on the whole, a more frugal hobby to ride than a good saddle-horse?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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_Pepsin_ is the enzyme which acts upon proteids, but it is able to act only in an acid medium — a condition which is supplied by the _hydrochloric acid_.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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