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- From: bhjelle@carina.unm.edu ()
- Newsgroups: misc.fitness
- Subject: Re: Raw Eggs, Cooked Eggs, etc.
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:06:31 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- References: <1993Jan20.122821.15986@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1993Jan21.093549.650@hnrc.tufts.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.093549.650@hnrc.tufts.edu> loszewski_im@hnrc.tufts.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.122821.15986@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, wittmann@engr.wisc.edu (art wittmann) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> like food poisoning. It was my understanding that cooking eggs in
- >> some way changed to protein, and so eating them uncooked was somehow
- >> better from the point of view of getting good usable protein.
- >>
- >So the shape of the protein will ultimately dictate the whether or not that
- >protein will be used for structural purposes or enzyme functions etc.
- >When you heat a protein up to a certain degree, you break the bonds that keep
- >the protein crinkled up resulting in a straightened out form. This flat form
- >loses its biological capability thus rendering the protein useless.
-
- Yes, but... (1) the biological function of egg proteins is to
- make a chick and sustain it til it hatches. Why do you need to
- do that in your bowel :-)... (2) whether a protein is denatured
- or native, your wickedly efficient stomack and intestines will
- turn it into amino acids anyway, which is all you will get out
- of *any* protein you eat.
-
- >However, if you are eating the protein for the amino acid content, it shouldn't
- >matter whether or not the protein is denatured.
-
- That is the only reason to eat protein.
-
- Brian
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