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Enzymes

What it is

Industrial enzymes that speed dough or cheese to factory schedule.

Why your biology objects

Enzymes (amylases, proteases, transglutaminase) do in minutes the breakdown that time and fermentation used to do — they're not in the final food in any meaningful amount, but they let the process skip the slow steps. The question is what else got skipped with them.

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