#RedactedScience preview of one new portion: 🔬 Enzyme Strips: What They Detect

Standard glucose strips use glucose oxidase, which reacts only with glucose, producing hydrogen peroxide and triggering a color change.

But you can engineer strips with other enzymes:

Sorbitol dehydrogenase → detects sorbitol Fructose dehydrogenase → detects fructose Xylose or galactose oxidase → detects alternate reducing sugars Alcohol oxidase → detects certain sugar alcohols like xylitol or mannitol

These enzymes are already available in research and some rare metabolic screening tools. They’re just not included in standard urinalysis panels, which are built for efficiency, billing codes, and catching only what’s reimbursable or actionable under current practice.