The science
The acidity goes. And the meal?
Stopping the burning is not the same as digesting the meal. Here is why.
Dizzo is a fizzy digestive you drop into a glass of water. It carries enzymes of its own. This page explains why that matters, in four steps — starting with what the antacid in your drawer already does well.
- 01
The meal was heavy.
A big, rich or oily meal sits in your stomach longer. Your body makes more acid to deal with it. That is the burning, sour feeling everybody knows.
- 02
The fizzy powder settles the acid.
A plain antacid powder is baking soda with citric acid. It cancels out the acid, and the burning settles — often in a minute or two. That part really works, and Dizzo fizzes for the same reason.
- 03
AcidPepsin But acid is not only there to burn.
That acid has a job. Your body uses it to switch on pepsin, your own enzyme for breaking down protein. Pepsin needs the stomach to be acidic — so as the acid settles, pepsin slows down with it.
- 04
The burning goes. The meal stays.
You feel better. The meal does not. It is still sitting there, and now it is breaking down more slowly than it was before you took anything.
The difference, in one sentence
Dizzo doesn’t stop at settling the acid. It works on the food as well.
Dizzo brings in its own digestive enzymes. They help break down the food, without depending on your stomach to stay acidic. So the burn can settle, while digestion still gets support.
Acid settled only
The acid settles. The meal is exactly where it was.
Acid settled + enzymes
The acid settles, and the enzymes work on the meal.
A plain antacid answers the acid. Dizzo answers the acid and the meal.
By category, never by brand — and the account on the left is the fair one. It does its job, and it does it fast. The difference is only what is still sitting there once the burning stops.
Plain antacid powders
Sodium bicarbonate with citric acid
- What it does
- Settles the acid in your stomach in a minute or two. The burning and the sourness really do go, and fast.
- Where it stops
- Nothing in it works on the meal. And your body's own protein enzyme, pepsin, needs the stomach to be acidic — so as the acid settles, pepsin slows down too.
Dizzo
The same fizz, carrying digestive enzymes
- What it does
- It fizzes for the same reason, so the acid settles the same way. Nothing about that is taken away.
- What it adds
- Papain and fungal diastase — digestive enzymes that act on the food itself. They come from outside your body, so unlike pepsin they do not need the stomach to stay acidic. They go on working after the burning has settled.
Then each pack adds its own: Dizzo Fast carries jeera, saunf and pudina. Dizzo Tablet carries simethicone, for gas that is already trapped.
Which enzyme takes which part of the meal.
Both Dizzo packs carry the same two enzymes. Neither one is exotic. You have met both of them in a kitchen.
- PapainFrom raw papaya
The enzyme in unripe papaya. Indian and South-East Asian kitchens have rubbed raw papaya into tough meat for generations to soften it — papain cuts long protein chains into shorter pieces. Dizzo carries a measured amount of the same enzyme.
Helps in protein digestion.
- Fungal DiastaseAlpha amylase, from fermentation
An amylase — the same family of enzyme as the one in your own saliva, which is why carbohydrates start tasting faintly sweet if you chew them long enough. It breaks them down into simpler sugars.
Helps in carbohydrate digestion.
The Indian kitchen knew this already.
Jeera water after a heavy meal. Saunf on the way out of a restaurant. Ajwain, hing. These are genuinely carminative, and that is why Dizzo Fast carries jeera, saunf and pudina as dry extracts. We are not pretending the kitchen was wrong.
What the kitchen does not give you is digestive enzymes, or a fixed dose. How strong it is depends on who made it and how much you drank.
JeeraCumin 
SaunfFennel 
PudinaMint 
PapayaThe source of papain
Trapped gas
And when the gas is trapped?
Enzymes work on food. Trapped gas is a different problem. It has already formed, and it is why your stomach feels tight and full. Dizzo Tablet adds simethicone. It is not an enzyme, and your body does not absorb it — it works on the surface of the small trapped bubbles so they join into bigger ones that are easier to pass. Dizzo Fast does not carry it. That is why the two products exist separately.
Everything, side by side
What works on what?
Every other kind of thing people reach for, side by side. By type, never by brand. Each column does exactly what it says it does. The difference is how many rows one product covers at once.
Settles the acid
- Antacid powder
- Chewable antacid
- Simethicone only
- Home remedies
- Dizzo Fast
- Dizzo Tablet
Digestive enzymes work on the food
- Antacid powder
- Chewable antacid
- Simethicone only
- Home remedies
- Dizzo Fast
- Dizzo Tablet
Works on trapped gas
- Antacid powder
- Chewable antacid
- Simethicone only
- Home remedies
- Dizzo Fast
- Dizzo Tablet
Carminative herbs
- Antacid powder
- Chewable antacid
- Simethicone only
- Home remedies
- Dizzo Fast
- Dizzo Tablet
Measured dose, every time
- Antacid powder
- Chewable antacid
- Simethicone only
- Home remedies
- Dizzo Fast
- Dizzo Tablet
| Antacid powderEno, Gasofast | Chewable antacid | Simethicone only | Home remedies | Dizzo Fast | Dizzo Tablet | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Settles the acid | ||||||
| Digestive enzymes work on the food | ||||||
| Works on trapped gas | ||||||
| Carminative herbs | ||||||
| Measured dose, every time | ||||||
| Rows covered | 2 / 5 | 2 / 5 | 2 / 5 | 1 / 5 | 4 / 5 | 4 / 5 |
And what does each one leave behind?
None of these is useless. Each one is good at the job it is for. That is why the thing it does not do is worth saying carefully, rather than loudly.
The fizzy powder sachet
Plain antacid powders
For example Eno, Gasofast.
Sodium bicarbonate with citric acid
Settles the acid in your stomach in a minute or two. The burning and the sourness really do go, and fast.
What it leaves behind
Nothing in it works on the meal. And your body's own protein enzyme, pepsin, needs the stomach to be acidic — so as the acid settles, pepsin slows down too.
The chewable tablet
Chewable antacid tablets
Calcium or magnesium salts
Settles the acid the same way, in a form you can carry loose in a pocket and take without water.
What it leaves behind
Same gap as the powder. It answers the acid and leaves the food exactly where it was.
Gas medicine only
Simethicone-only products
Simethicone on its own
Works on gas that is already trapped, which is the right target when the stomach feels tight and full.
What it leaves behind
Nothing in it works on the digestion that made the gas in the first place.
Jeera water, ajwain, hing
Home remedies
Carminative kitchen herbs
Genuinely carminative — which is exactly why Dizzo carries jeera, saunf and pudina rather than pretending the kitchen was wrong.
What it leaves behind
No digestive enzymes, and no fixed dose. How strong it is depends on who made it and how much you drank.