NOW Foods Supplements, ChewyZymes, Broad Spectrum Chewable Enzymes, Berry Flavor, 90 Chewables

I'm updating my review to 5 stars. It was making me feel sick but I realized it works better with large meals and then it really helps!

Literally the most powerful and affective enzymes I’ve ever tried. Highly recommend!

Work really well and have a pleasant, lightly sweet flavor- I have had severe GI issues including daily vomiting and regurgitation along with acid reflux and erosion of esophgus, indigestion, bloating, vitamin deficiencies causing lethargy, brain fog, vision problems, acne and dry skin, hair loss, etc for over 5 years with no medical answers... found these online and decided to try both of NOW's chewables and capsules (had better results with the chewables...maybe the outer capsule?). I had, at first, pretty decent results, but not quite there yet... things were definitely much better, but still not as great as I'd hoped.... so then along with taking the ChewyZymes, I tried removing all soy (and it's derivatives: not easy in USA-its added to almost everything!!!) from my diet. I immediately felt amazing! Everything started to go back to normal, like when I was younger! No more GI issues, vomiting, stomach aches.. my skin cleared up and hair came back in, even my vocal chords started to heal so well I could sing again: I FELT GREAT!!!! Then I had several personal issues; a death in family, a car that died same week and along with a bunch of other financial crap going on- with all that, I didn't remember to take the enzymes. I forgot to take my normal 1-2 enzymes with each meal and quickly, more and more, the symptoms returned.... getting worse and worse until I realized that after about 4 weeks of feeling again like crap, I had not been taking them with my food. Over the last month, I'd been really sporadic about taking the enzymes....and it showed almost right away... As soon as I put this together (brain fog had come back with a vengeance!) I immediately took a couple ChewyZmes and my stomach ache got better, then within 2 days of returning to vigilant enzymes before every little thing that I eat or drank, I am now again back to normal! I now realize that I have a deficiency with my own enzyme production and will probably never be able to eat without the help of added enzymes. ...guess I should sign up for the subscription orders! Thank you NOW foods!

Taste of these is palatable, at best. Like stale berry flavored Tums. It's a weird flavor. Mildly chalky, but dissolves well enough to not warrant complaints. They work well, which is most important. I eat the regular digestive enzymes by this brand with almost every non-breakfast meal. These are helpful with having lactase in them for when there's dairy, or could be, in the food I'm eating since I'm very lactose intolerant. I wish they had the anti-gas enzyme (Beano) as well, then they'd be about perfect. But they're still great and helpful, especially when traveling and food is sometimes not the most agreeable.

Sometimes I don’t want to go through the trouble of swallowing a pill, so I’ll take these. Love them! My 9 year old son, who has had multiple GI surgeries, loves them as well. Great product!

Not sure why, but these taste like literal vomit to me, especially if taken with hot food/drink. It also caused stomach aches when taken on an empty stomach before eating, while waiting on food to finish being made. I can’t say that it helped with digestion, as I threw up after taking these and eating one of the times I took it. The good thing about these though is that no swallowing necessary, which is why I picked these over anything else. The other positive is that it didn’t cause or aggregate my acid reflux, that’s a huge deal to me. It didn’t help with dairy, I still got nausea and diarrhea after 5 bites of dairy pasta, I prefer Lactaid for that still. Overall, since it’s so hard to find chewable supplements for people who can’t take pills, I’d still shop from this brand again, just maybe not this particular product.

Both my daughters take this when they eat a heavy meal or eat something that may be harder to digest like broccoli or beans, etc. and they say it really helps them. I take a much stronger digestive enzyme but I have taken these in an emergency when out of my normal higher dose enzyme, and I must say these are pretty impressive for a chewable broad spectrum enzyme!

OK, a little TMI to set the stage - IBS-D, for more than three years. NOTHING controls it, high dose (Dr approved) imodium can ease comfort and give me a chance to actually go to work on bad days but nothing changes what's actually, erm, happening, if you get my meaning. So, tried this. Why not, it's cheap, and if it tasted as good as the reviews said, like a candy, then all the better. Firstly, it DOES taste good. Kind of like a smartie. I've used it more than a month, and holy improvement. Not back to normal improvement, but still pretty danged amazing, from a seven to five if you know the Bristol chart. But absolutely eat it before or within the first few bites of every meal. After doesn't work. At all. Especially with Thai food. That was my only flare up. Also, it does give some heartburn type symptoms for some reason. Or acid reflux. Not sure which, just some burning in my throat, I've never had to deal with it before so it's mildly annoying. Tends to wake me in the early hours and I eat Tums, makes it better. I can only say it's this supplement as nothing else has changed. The trade off, for me, is worth it.