The phrase "as a digestive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that aids in digestion, such as a food or drink that is consumed for digestive benefits.
Example: "After the meal, she enjoyed a cup of peppermint tea as a digestive to help settle her stomach."
Alternatives: "to aid digestion" or "for digestive support".
Ruminants have evolved a gastric c type lysozyme as a digestive enzyme, and profit from digestion of foregut bacteria, after most dietary components, including protein, have been fermented in the rumen.
Caleb Bradham, the North Carolina pharmacist who invented the drink, in 1893, promoted it as a digestive aid — it supposedly stimulated the release of pepsin, an enzyme used in digestion — but, as with many other tonics, potions, and elixirs produced by the medicine men of that era, Pepsi's medicinal claims were pure hokum.
A good case can also be made for its use as a digestive.
It's usually drunk as a digestive or in coffee, when it's called café Maya.
Prostitutes in India opted for paan, or betel nut wrapped in a leaf, which many Indians chew as a digestive.
"Now, that's the nose on the clown," he said, adding that -- like ketchup or more tangy dipping sauces -- the condiment also functioned as a digestive aid.
Different parts of N. arbor- tristis plants are used in Ayurveda, Siddha-Ayurveda and Unani systems of medicine as a digestives, antidote to reptile venoms, mild bitter tonic, laxative, diaphoretic, diuretic and arthritis [ 11].
Parasitism by Nosema impairs the host's metabolism and reproduction, and causes a destructive disease known as nosemosis, a digestive disorder that shortens honey bee lifespan, retards colony development, decimates bee populations, and causes colony queen supersedure [ 17- 22].
Or pick up some asafetida, a spice added to food to help digestion, or candy-coated fennel seeds, also a digestive aid, as well as a breath freshener.
The tomatoes came from Portugal; the fruit compote consisted of figs and apricots from Turkey; the raisins from California; and the cocoa that ended up as chocolate on a digestive biscuit was picked in West Africa.
It also contains caerulins, which have the same physiological effects as CCK-8, a digestive hormone and hunger suppressant.
