Yes.
helps digest proteins
Proteins need an acid environmet to digest.
There are two things in gastric juices, Pepsin and hydrochloric acid. If one is alone, it would not do any digestion of proteins. But together, they can digest proteins.
Proteases are enzyme that digest proteins. In stomach we have proteases such as trypsin, pepsin and chymotrypsin that digest proteins. In addition there are peptidases that digest the peptides to simple amino acids.
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Pepsin helps digest proteins in the human body.
It helps to digest proteins.
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proteins into amino acids
The enzyme that digests proteins into peptides is called protease.