Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A proteolytic ferment, found in the cell-sap of many plants and in the culture-fluids of Tyrothrix, capable of digesting casein beyond the peptone to the acid amide stage.
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Mr. H.C. Brill [2] found raffinase, invertase, casease and protease in the pulp; oxidase, raffinase, casease and emulsinlike enzymes in the fresh bean; and all these six, together with diastase, in the fermented bean.
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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According to him, these organisms do not function directly as ripening agents, but they secrete an enzym or unorganized ferment to which he applies the name _casease_.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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