Methem

Whats the point in eating/drinking raw eggs?
I never really understood why people do that.
Does it have something to do with getting strong bones?
Does it have something to do with dieting?

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Big Smoothy

^ it's because they watched the movie "Rocky" too many times.

folks eat raw eggs for the protein. I prefer a shake.

There are some technical differences however.

atherjen

read this: http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/sh...light=raw+eggs (eggs, raw or cooked(i know it has been discussed in other threads))

dont eat raw eggs

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derekisdman

Go with the Raw eggs

Homer: Hey! I saved your life! That egg sandwich could have killed you by cholesterol.
Lenny: Pfft, forget it, Homer. While it has been established that eggs contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human
blood stream.

Quasimodo

Duh... I eat them with milk... or chuck them in Milo... raw of course. hard boiled and they're kinda hard to mix into the drink and swallowed. Sunny side up and they float.

BulkMeUp

Seriously, the only raw eggs i would eat are the ones that come in a carton which is pasterurised.

CowPimp

The chance of getting food poisoning from eating raw eggs is extremely low. It's 1/300,000 or 1/30,000; I can't remember which one.

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I have had salmonella poisoning. Trust me when I say that it ain't fun...it's potentially fatal even!

If you must eat raw eggs, eat the ones that are pasteurized. It's still an egg and still is raw; it was just heated up to a certain degree to kill all the nasty things inside.

(I believe that this is my first post to these boards! The cherry is broken!)

derekisdman

If you're healthy and your immune system is up to par, salmonella poisoning is usually much milder than people make it out to be.

Also the point of eating raw eggs is the nutrients in the yolk, so just eating raw whites doesn't really matter. I think that eating them raw also saves some money, since you'll be eating the entire egg where as if you cooked them you'd probbaly lose the yolks.

Homer: Hey! I saved your life! That egg sandwich could have killed you by cholesterol.
Lenny: Pfft, forget it, Homer. While it has been established that eggs contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human
blood stream.

Emma-Leigh

Some people believe that it is healthier and more nutritionally benificial to eat/drink raw eggs.. However, it is actually the reverse.

Besides the salmonella risk of eating raw eggs (esp in America, not soo much of a concern in places like Australia) you are not getting the maximum nutritional benifits of the egg if it is not cooked! The digestability of raw egg whites is only something like 50 to 60%, while a cooked egg-white has a digestability closer to 90%. This means if you drink down raw eggs you are nearly halving the available protein!

I have a journal abstract somewhere... I will see if I can dig it up...

derekisdman

I'm pretty sure this is false

Homer: Hey! I saved your life! That egg sandwich could have killed you by cholesterol.
Lenny: Pfft, forget it, Homer. While it has been established that eggs contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human
blood stream.

Emma-Leigh

If you want to go and have a look at the info I found the journal source...

The Journal of Nutrition Vol. 128 No. 10 October 1998, pp. 1716-1722

Egg proteins contribute substantially to the daily nitrogen allowances in Western countries and are generally considered to be highly digestible. However, information is lacking on the true ileal digestibility of either raw or cooked egg protein. The recent availability of stable isotope-labeled egg protein allowed determination of the true ileal digestibility of egg protein by means of noninvasive tracer techniques. Five ileostomy patients were studied, once after ingestion of a test meal consisting of 25 g of cooked 13C- and 15N-labeled egg protein, and once after ingestion of the same test meal in raw form. Ileal effluents and breath samples were collected at regular intervals after consumption of the test meal and analyzed for 15N- and 13C-content, respectively. The true ileal digestibility of cooked and raw egg protein amounted to 90.9% (cooked) and 51.3% (raw) respectively. A significant negative correlation (r = 0.92, P < 0.001) was found between the 13C-recovery in breath and the recovery of exogenous N in the ileal effluents. In summary, using the 15N-dilution technique we demonstrated that the assimilation of cooked egg protein is efficient, albeit incomplete, and that the true ileal digestibility of egg protein is significantly enhanced by heat-pretreatment. A simple 13C-breath test technique furthermore proved to be a suitable alternative for the evaluation of the true ileal digestibility of egg protein........

Egg white protein is generally considered to be less digestible than heat-pretreated egg white protein. In this study, it was shown that after ingestion of 25 g of raw egg protein, almost 50% is malabsorbed over 24 h. The higher digestibility of cooked egg protein presumably results from structural changes in the protein molecule induced by heating, thereby enabling the digestive enzymes to gain broader access to the peptide bonds. It has been suggested that the reduced digestibility of raw egg white is at least partially related to the presence of trypsin inhibitors in raw egg white.

atherjen

I completly agree with Emma!

for those that didnt follow my link, as well... :

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BulkMeUp

Now i find out!! after chugging down 8 raw egg whites everyday from a cartoon for the past 6 months that a good percentage went to waste!!!

MissOz

I believe that the raw egg thing is just one of those old old myth things associated with the early bodybuilding era...back in the good old days they didn't have a whole lot of choices as to which/what/proteins to consume...thank goodness we've come along way scince then....xx

sara

So, can we heat up egg protein powder?

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sara

Mix it with regular eggs and heat it up in microwave and you'll have a cake!
Add PB, Berries

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BulkMeUp

I'd like my tiny eggs sunny side up, please!

Martinogdenbsx

But if you are having them every day your are increasing the risk every day surely

Wouldn't really want to take the risk personally

Emma-Leigh

Most of the time you can - they usually make all egg-protein powders so you can specifically add it to recipes and cook with it...

But I would read the label just to make sure.

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sara

Would they call it All egg protein powder?

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Emma-Leigh

Ummm... I think you miss-understood....

The usually make all egg based protein powders (as in, all brands/makes etc) so they can be used in cooking.

I was not talking about any particular brand... They would call it what ever the name of the product was... (Mine, for example, is called "Balance 100% egg albumin" ).

BulkMeUp

Methinks that would mean that all the protein in that powder came from eggs. I use an egg-whey blend. Meaning that the protein sources in this powder are eggs AND whey.

sara

got it Thanks guys!

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