How Enzymes Work In Controlling Orders

It may not be the age old question, but for those who want to know how enzymes work for the purpose of eliminating odors, keep reading. In a nut shell, they compete with bacteria, eating the food source that is causing the odors. Once the food source is gone, the bacteria as well as the enzymes will basically die.


In order for one to understand further how enzymes work, let’s take a closer look at the enzyme itself. The type in chemicals that eliminate odors is a non-pathogenic organism that will breakdown a food source in accelerated amounts. What this means is that there a large quantity of enzymes and by out numbering the bacteria, they will eat more of the odor causing food source.

They have to go through the bio-cycle and “activate” from a spore state to a “living” state. Once it becomes a living state enzyme, in these accelerated amounts, they are capable of eating the food source faster than any bacteria, therefore eliminating the food which in a decaying state is the actual source of the odor. Once the food is consumed and is no longer present, the enzymes will revert to a spore state or simply die along with the bacteria. With no decaying food source there is no odor.

The term food is used indicating the actual product that will decay and cause an odor. It can be actual human food in the bottom of a garbage disposal, urine in carpet, and garbage in trash a receptacle and even be a decaying animal that may have died between the walls of a building such as a rat or mouse. How enzymes work to eliminate the odors caused by this decaying matter, is quite simple. Enzymes are applied to the source itself and these accelerated amounts will actually eat more of the food source than the bacteria at a much faster rate.

Though this is a very basic illustration, you should now have a fairly good understanding of how enzymes work.