[quote]davidcox1 wrote:
I take my eggs raw. I drink them out of a carton. Someone told me once that I should cook them to get the full nutritional value out of them. I assumed they meant that our bodies can better handle the cooked version of eggs over the raw version, but I have never seen anything to back up this person’s assertion and I continue to eat my eggs raw (because I don’t have a kitchen at work to cook them on).[/quote]
I had very much doubted the claim of improved protein bioavailability from the cooking of eggs, but there has relatively recently been sound research on it. I don’t recall the reference but it was properly done and caused me to change my opinion.
It’s actually a pretty substantial difference. I don’t recall the exact figures, and I didn’t make this sort of conversion at the time of reading it, but it would work out to something like needing to eat, if eating eggs raw and wishing the same amount of protein to be absorbed, about 50% more eggs.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
davidcox1 wrote:
I take my eggs raw. I drink them out of a carton. Someone told me once that I should cook them to get the full nutritional value out of them. I assumed they meant that our bodies can better handle the cooked version of eggs over the raw version, but I have never seen anything to back up this person’s assertion and I continue to eat my eggs raw (because I don’t have a kitchen at work to cook them on).
I had very much doubted the claim of improved protein bioavailability from the cooking of eggs, but there has relatively recently been sound research on it. I don’t recall the reference but it was properly done and caused me to change my opinion.
It’s actually a pretty substantial difference. I don’t recall the exact figures, and I didn’t make this sort of conversion at the time of reading it, but it would work out to something like needing to eat, if eating eggs raw and wishing the same amount of protein to be absorbed, about 50% more eggs.
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I would be interested in what you read if you can find it for me. Thanks.
Here is a quote from JonnyBowden.com that pretty much sums it up:
"Now all the nutritionists and MDs I respect have said for years that cholesterol isn’t a problem in the body until it’s oxidized, though that message tends to fall on deaf ears as a 20 billion dollar a year industry continues to demonize cholesterol of any kind in any amount (but that’s another story). The point is that oxidized cholesterol actually is a problem. And unfortunately, when you scramble eggs you break up the yolk (where the cholesterol is found) and expose the cholesterol in it to a lot more air (and potential oxidative damage) than you would if the yolk were whole (as for example in poached or hard boiled eggs).
Again, I’m not- repeat not- telling you this so that you will be afraid to eat scrambled eggs. And if you eat them fairly soon after scrambling and cooking, and if you’re healthy in every way and taking your antioxidants (or eating plenty of antioxidant rich foods), you should be fine.
But I do think you might want to think twice about serving yourself the scrambled eggs in a breakfast buffet, particularly when it’s a good bet they’ve been sitting out there in the light and air for hours."
I take my eggs raw. I drink them out of a carton. Someone told me once that I should cook them to get the full nutritional value out of them. I assumed they meant that our bodies can better handle the cooked version of eggs over the raw version, but I have never seen anything to back up this person’s assertion and I continue to eat my eggs raw (because I don’t have a kitchen at work to cook them on).
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I did that once and i was sick for like 2-3 days. Is it because it was my first time? Or did I get bad eggs? Did you get sick the first time you did it? Is there any harm in eating them raw?
I take my eggs raw. I drink them out of a carton. Someone told me once that I should cook them to get the full nutritional value out of them. I assumed they meant that our bodies can better handle the cooked version of eggs over the raw version, but I have never seen anything to back up this person’s assertion and I continue to eat my eggs raw (because I don’t have a kitchen at work to cook them on).
I did that once and i was sick for like 2-3 days. Is it because it was my first time? Or did I get bad eggs? Did you get sick the first time you did it? Is there any harm in eating them raw?
Thanks in advance for the reply[/quote]
I will on occasion crack a few into a whisky glass and down them one at a time. The only reason I ever do this is because I can eat more eggs this way. I don’t really love scrambled eggs, and hard boiled eggs fill me up too much, I can only eat like 2 at a time. But I can knock back 4 or 5 raw eggs in like a minute. I have never gotten sick from it but with the new info out about the protein bioavalability I’ll probably just cook em from now on.
I take my eggs raw. I drink them out of a carton. Someone told me once that I should cook them to get the full nutritional value out of them. I assumed they meant that our bodies can better handle the cooked version of eggs over the raw version, but I have never seen anything to back up this person’s assertion and I continue to eat my eggs raw (because I don’t have a kitchen at work to cook them on).
I did that once and i was sick for like 2-3 days. Is it because it was my first time? Or did I get bad eggs? Did you get sick the first time you did it? Is there any harm in eating them raw?
Thanks in advance for the reply[/quote]
“Raw” means I don’t cook them. Mine come from a carton, and they are pasteurized, so I don’t worry about bacteria. If you crack your own eggs for this (which I have done on rare occasion), you risk salmonella poisoning, among other things. Wouldn’t recommend that kind of “raw” eggs. I’ve never gotten sick from my eggs, by my farts stink something fierce. My wife (and my coworkers) hate it.
Yesterday in fact, some electricians were in my office doing some work, blaming each other for having let a deadly fart (“It wasn’t me”, they kept saying to each other). One of them claimed because he had a colonoscopy the night before that his farts could not smell as a matter of medical science. What they didn’t know is that I had been farting in my office all morning and that’s what they were smelling. When they saw me, they said “Something died in there man”, each adding “It wasn’t me”. When I entered to check, they warned me not to breath in too hard, lest I be overcome. Of course, I could smell nothing because I had become accustomed to it. I never told them what it was…I blamed it on my tuna containers in the trash can.
I take my eggs raw. I drink them out of a carton. Someone told me once that I should cook them to get the full nutritional value out of them. I assumed they meant that our bodies can better handle the cooked version of eggs over the raw version, but I have never seen anything to back up this person’s assertion and I continue to eat my eggs raw (because I don’t have a kitchen at work to cook them on).
I did that once and i was sick for like 2-3 days. Is it because it was my first time? Or did I get bad eggs? Did you get sick the first time you did it? Is there any harm in eating them raw?
Thanks in advance for the reply
I will on occasion crack a few into a whisky glass and down them one at a time. The only reason I ever do this is because I can eat more eggs this way. I don’t really love scrambled eggs, and hard boiled eggs fill me up too much, I can only eat like 2 at a time. But I can knock back 4 or 5 raw eggs in like a minute. I have never gotten sick from it but with the new info out about the protein bioavalability I’ll probably just cook em from now on.
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I’m still looking for the scoop on protein bioavailability in raw versus cooked eggs. I need to be convinced by the literature before I change my protein ingestion habits.
I mix 2 or 3 into my protein shake. I heard that running hot water over them from the faucet for a few minute helps with the lack of absorption. I have no proof of this but the gas factor definitely went down since I started doing it, so draw own conclusion.
If I’m eating them cooked it’s either straight scrambled or an omelette. I’d eat them every day but I’ve heard you’lll develop an allergy if you do that for too long
I take my eggs raw. I drink them out of a carton. Someone told me once that I should cook them to get the full nutritional value out of them.
I assumed they meant that our bodies can better handle the cooked version of eggs over the raw version, but I have never seen anything to back up this person’s assertion and I continue to eat my eggs raw (because I don’t have a kitchen at work to cook them on).
I did that once and i was sick for like 2-3 days. Is it because it was my first time? Or did I get bad eggs? Did you get sick the first time you did it? Is there any harm in eating them raw?
Thanks in advance for the reply
I will on occasion crack a few into a whisky glass and down them one at a time. The only reason I ever do this is because I can eat more eggs this way. I don’t really love scrambled eggs, and hard boiled eggs fill me up too much, I can only eat like 2 at a time.
But I can knock back 4 or 5 raw eggs in like a minute. I have never gotten sick from it but with the new info out about the protein bioavalability I’ll probably just cook em from now on.
V
I’m still looking for the scoop on protein bioavailability in raw versus cooked eggs. I need to be convinced by the literature before I change my protein ingestion habits.[/quote]
Ye I read somewhere possibly on this site that, less protein is absorbed when eggs are eaten raw as cooking them starts the process of breaking down the eggs so they can be absorbed easier
I take my eggs raw. I drink them out of a carton. Someone told me once that I should cook them to get the full nutritional value out of them. I assumed they meant that our bodies can better handle the cooked version of eggs over the raw version, but I have never seen anything to back up this person’s assertion and I continue to eat my eggs raw (because I don’t have a kitchen at work to cook them on).
I did that once and i was sick for like 2-3 days. Is it because it was my first time? Or did I get bad eggs? Did you get sick the first time you did it? Is there any harm in eating them raw?
Thanks in advance for the reply
I will on occasion crack a few into a whisky glass and down them one at a time. The only reason I ever do this is because I can eat more eggs this way. I don’t really love scrambled eggs, and hard boiled eggs fill me up too much, I can only eat like 2 at a time. But I can knock back 4 or 5 raw eggs in like a minute. I have never gotten sick from it but with the new info out about the protein bioavalability I’ll probably just cook em from now on.
V
I’m still looking for the scoop on protein bioavailability in raw versus cooked eggs. I need to be convinced by the literature before I change my protein ingestion habits.[/quote]
Cooking increases egg protein digestibility from approx. 50% to 90%.
Eating raw eggs, as in crack open an egg and eat it raw, can be dangerous as it is a known fact that salmonella food poisoning can occur. While not something that will happen every day, there is a real risk.
I take my eggs raw. I drink them out of a carton. Someone told me once that I should cook them to get the full nutritional value out of them. I assumed they meant that our bodies can better handle the cooked version of eggs over the raw version, but I have never seen anything to back up this person’s assertion and I continue to eat my eggs raw (because I don’t have a kitchen at work to cook them on).
I did that once and i was sick for like 2-3 days. Is it because it was my first time? Or did I get bad eggs? Did you get sick the first time you did it? Is there any harm in eating them raw?
Thanks in advance for the reply
I will on occasion crack a few into a whisky glass and down them one at a time. The only reason I ever do this is because I can eat more eggs this way. I don’t really love scrambled eggs, and hard boiled eggs fill me up too much, I can only eat like 2 at a time. But I can knock back 4 or 5 raw eggs in like a minute. I have never gotten sick from it but with the new info out about the protein bioavalability I’ll probably just cook em from now on.
V
I’m still looking for the scoop on protein bioavailability in raw versus cooked eggs. I need to be convinced by the literature before I change my protein ingestion habits.
Cooking increases egg protein digestibility from approx. 50% to 90%.
Wow. Thanks for that. Just what I was looking for. Now I have to decide whether to double my raw egg intake or just cook them (still don’t have a stove at work where I consume them most often).
I take my eggs raw. I drink them out of a carton. Someone told me once that I should cook them to get the full nutritional value out of them. I assumed they meant that our bodies can better handle the cooked version of eggs over the raw version, but I have never seen anything to back up this person’s assertion and I continue to eat my eggs raw (because I don’t have a kitchen at work to cook them on).
I did that once and i was sick for like 2-3 days. Is it because it was my first time? Or did I get bad eggs? Did you get sick the first time you did it? Is there any harm in eating them raw?
Thanks in advance for the reply
I will on occasion crack a few into a whisky glass and down them one at a time. The only reason I ever do this is because I can eat more eggs this way. I don’t really love scrambled eggs, and hard boiled eggs fill me up too much, I can only eat like 2 at a time. But I can knock back 4 or 5 raw eggs in like a minute. I have never gotten sick from it but with the new info out about the protein bioavalability I’ll probably just cook em from now on.
V
I’m still looking for the scoop on protein bioavailability in raw versus cooked eggs. I need to be convinced by the literature before I change my protein ingestion habits.
Cooking increases egg protein digestibility from approx. 50% to 90%.
Wow. Thanks for that. Just what I was looking for. Now I have to decide whether to double my raw egg intake or just cook them (still don’t have a stove at work where I consume them most often).[/quote]
Wow. Thanks for that. Just what I was looking for. Now I have to decide whether to double my raw egg intake or just cook them (still don’t have a stove at work where I consume them most often).
Hard boiled eggs travel well, just boil them up.
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I honestly hadn’t thought of that . . . and I love hard boiled eggs.
Wow. Thanks for that. Just what I was looking for. Now I have to decide whether to double my raw egg intake or just cook them (still don’t have a stove at work where I consume them most often).
Hard boiled eggs travel well, just boil them up.
V
I honestly hadn’t thought of that . . . and I love hard boiled eggs.[/quote]
I love em also, my only problem with them is eating enough of them. I can only eat 2 whole hard boiled eggs, but I can then eat another 2 whites only. So I guess it isn’t too bad. Also sometimes I will make egg salad, just add a little Mayo for the two egg yolks I took out and add in some sliced olives. The acidity of the olives really makes it easy to eat plus it adds a little flavor boost.
It’s quite strange because there are certain foods I can eat almost superhuman amounts of, but then others it’s like my stomach just shrinks up upon ingesting the first few bites. I mean I can literally sit there and eat a 1 lb bag of my homeade beef jerky. It doesn’t even phase me and I usually only stop because I have lockjaw from all the chewing. Yet eggs seem just mess with my stomach fullness. Even after I have my eggs for breakfast, I am ready to puke on the last couple bites, but 10 minutes later I’ll be stuffing jerky in my mouth. I guess it’s not too bad, I just use my jerky as a protein staple in my diet. The top and bottom rounds I use are 1.89 or 1.99 per lb so it’s pretty cheap all things considered.
Could be the fat in eggs causes the pyloric valve at the bottom of the stomach to close. It could also be that you chew the jerky more, thus processing it and allowing your saliva to do it’s job and setup markers for proper digestion.
Wow. Thanks for that. Just what I was looking for. Now I have to decide whether to double my raw egg intake or just cook them (still don’t have a stove at work where I consume them most often).[/quote]
Tip, boil your eggs up in the kettle at work if you have one. Takes a little trial and error but you will start to know how many times to flick the switch on the kettle to get the eggs cooked. Your work mates will love the new taste of their coffee or tea too.
Cholestrol and free polyunsaturates in the egg are affected by heat and oxygen. Fats in poached or soft boiled are least denatured, fried, omlette and scrambled may be worst. Udo Erasmus has some good stuff on it.