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R. S. SHALLENBERGER Cornell University, New York State Agricultural
Research Station, New York, USA Among the material to be discussed
in this first section of the 'Enzymes and Food Processing
Symposium' is subject matter that can be viewed as a marriage
between enzyme technology and sugar stereochemistry. In order to
bring the significance of the material to be presented into proper
perspective, I would like you to pretend, for a moment, that you
are a researcher making a proposal on this subject to a Research
Granting Agency in order to obtain financial support for your
ideas. However, the year is 1880. Under the 'objectives' section of
your proposal, you state that you intend to attach the intangible
vital force or spirit-that is, the catalyst unique to the chemistry
of living organisms-to an inert substrate such as sand. Thereafter
you will pass a solution of right handed glucose (also known as
starch sugar) past the 'vital force' and in the process convert it
to left-handed glucose (also known as fruit sugar). The peer review
committee would probably reject the proposal as sheer nonsense
because the statements made were not only contrary to their
experience, but also contrary to what they had been taught. Perhaps
a few select people would have some feeling for what you were
talking about, but commiseration would be the only form of support
that they could offer.
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