Liha töötlemine
Processes of protein
that numerous bioactive peptides are gener- digestion for generation of peptides from
ated from food proteins, such as milk, soy, meat proteins include gastrointestinal diges-
fish, and meat proteins (Korhonen and tion, aging, fermentation, and protease treat-
Pihlanto 2003, 2007; Pihlanto and Korhonen ment (Fig. 24.5).
2003; Mine and Shahidi 2005; Gobbetti et al. Meat proteins are attacked by proteolytic
2007). Representative bioactivities of such enzymes (e.g., pepsin, trypsin, chymotripsin,
peptides are summarized in Table 24.4. elastase, and carboxypeptidase) during gas-
Of such bioactive peptides, angiotensin trointestinal digestion (Pihlanto and Korhonen
I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory pep- 2003). Although there has been no clear evi-
tides have been studied most extensively dence that bioactive peptides are generated
(Vermeirssen et al. 2004; Meisel et al. 2005)