Do any of you eat raw eggs? I’ve been thinking about switching over from soft boiled eggs to raw eggs for breakfast. My only concern is about getting sick. How high is the chance of getting sick from eating raw eggs compared to boiled eggs? Is there any way to determine if an egg is bad before you eat it?
I don’t really care about the taste. Boiling the eggs and peeling off the shell takes too long. I’d just break a few into a glass and drink that.
Thanks…
Nice, I think I’m going to just drink 3 raw eggs and eat some veggies for breakfast. This is going to save me so much time. School’s over, so I’m not really in a hurry in the morning, but whatever.
I’m going to feel so hard core drinking raw eggs…lol
Thanks for the input guys.
ive seen studies showing that you only get about 50% of the calories/nutrients from raw eggs because u need to heat it to denature the proteins which happens at 134 degrees
[quote]David1991 wrote:
ive seen studies showing that you only get about 50% of the calories/nutrients from raw eggs because u need to heat it to denature the proteins which happens at 134 degrees[/quote]
I thought that Protein being denatured was a bad thing. This was one of the reasons that I wanted to do this. Doesn’t an egg lose Protein value when it gets cooked? So, soft boiled eggs have more protein than hard boiled eggs and raw eggs have the most. That’s what I have heard.
Can anybody confirm that I am completely wrong and should keep eating soft boiled eggs?
[quote]Artem wrote:
David1991 wrote:
ive seen studies showing that you only get about 50% of the calories/nutrients from raw eggs because u need to heat it to denature the proteins which happens at 134 degrees
I thought that Protein being denatured was a bad thing. This was one of the reasons that I wanted to do this. Doesn’t an egg lose Protein value when it gets cooked? So, soft boiled eggs have more protein than hard boiled eggs and raw eggs have the most. That’s what I have heard.
Can anybody confirm that I am completely wrong and should keep eating soft boiled eggs?[/quote]
sorry i cant find the study but basically it was saying that when cooked about 90% of the protein/nutrients were available for digestion. when its raw only about 50% is
[quote]David1991 wrote:
Artem wrote:
David1991 wrote:
ive seen studies showing that you only get about 50% of the calories/nutrients from raw eggs because u need to heat it to denature the proteins which happens at 134 degrees
I thought that Protein being denatured was a bad thing. This was one of the reasons that I wanted to do this. Doesn’t an egg lose Protein value when it gets cooked? So, soft boiled eggs have more protein than hard boiled eggs and raw eggs have the most. That’s what I have heard.
Can anybody confirm that I am completely wrong and should keep eating soft boiled eggs?
sorry i cant find the study but basically it was saying that when cooked about 90% of the protein/nutrients were available for digestion. when its raw only about 50% is[/quote]
You people do realize that heat isn’t the only way to denature protein, correct? pH can also do it (hint: your stomach acid).
Is there a reason why you think raw eggs are resistant to denaturation by stomach acid?
edit: for what it’s worth, I drink a dozen raw eggs a day.
alot of people use egg whites
i prefer the whole egg because i heard somewhere that the eggs cholesterol doesn’t actually affect the a humans blood cholesterol, i have no idea how this works…