Puritan's Pride Chewable Super Papaya Enzyme Plus Review

This chewable papaya enzyme product lists a single proprietary blend of 6 milligrams per serving. Because the blend is proprietary, the label does not show how much of each ingredient it contains, so no amount can be compared with a studied dose. We found no human studies testing any of its ingredients for reversing aging or for cellular and DNA repair. With no ingredient findings to draw on, there is no study evidence that this product slows aging, rejuvenates cells or repairs DNA. Customer ratings are strongly positive, with about 1400 ratings and 95 percent of them favorable. However, no written reviews could be read, so we do not know what buyers were rating or whether any of them mentioned aging-related effects. Enzyme products like this one are often bought for other reasons, and a high rating cannot stand in for study evidence on this goal. Members interested in reversing aging should know that this product has no study support for that purpose at this time. Animal and cell studies are never counted.

The only ingredient the panel spoke about here is papain, which is a smaller ingredient in this product, and just three of the ten panelists commented on it. One panelist recommends it, using high doses as an enzyme to break down yeast and candida films, and says a product with papain helped his inflammation and soreness after a long endurance race. Another stayed neutral, noting that papaya enzymes break down proteins and may aid digestion, and he described a mouse study using 1 milligram. The third, also neutral, only noted that many foundational supplements now include papain. No one on the panel gave a caution or said they stopped taking it, and no one named a preferred form or something to pair it with.