Thread: Doubt with white of the egg...

I think I read in a study awhile back that heat treatment increased the availability of the proteins a bit --- probably because the proteins denature etc.

However, I wouldn't think it would make a big difference in practice.

While on this topic, denaturing a protein does not affect it's nutrition value does it? I mean if you cook something on a high heat it won't lose it's protein value will it

It doesn't affect the nutrition value. The denaturing process just disrupts the tertiary and sometimes the secondary structure of the protein. You are essentially unraveling the protein. The protein loses its function, but you're body digests the amino acids just fine.

so is drinking raw eggs good or bad?

There isn't much harm to doing it.

I couldn't imagine that it would taste very good though.