I’ve been adding a scoop or so of ON Whey to my oatmeal in the mornings and then heating it in the microwave. Is this bad for the protein? I am familiar with protein structures and know that when they reach a certain temperature, they can denature or otherwise undergo a conformational change. And the package says keep away from heat and light. Do y’all mix in the protein after you microwave the oatmeal? Thanks.
I don’t see a microwave heating up protein high enough to denature it.
Seeing as how I and many others use it for cooking in the oven, i’m sure it will be fine
Gotcha. Didn’t know how sensitive it was. Thank you.
Bah, I threw away my microwave over 1 1/2 ago and havent regretted it since. It dont JIVE with my whole food/Raw style of eating either so it had to go.
Just add protein after you’ve heated the oatmeal.
One scoop of Metabolic Drive Vanilla and one cup of frozen blueberries does the trick for me.
add it afterwards otherwise it turns out hard and chewy which is gross in oatmeal. at least that’s what happened to me.
I agree with the boys I also have whey with oatmeal its a great muscle meal but put it in after youve heated the oatmeal just to be on the safe side and so that you know your whey was not damaged or altered
I through a scoop of Vanilla protein powder, 1 packet of oatmeal and half to full serving of Superfood in a blender, blend it for a few seconds (else the Superfood clumps) then dump that in a bowl and microwave for 1:10
Perfect.
I hate adding and mixing powder later, takes too long to get it all blended in. And the Superfood makes it taste great.
Its fine if it gets denatured fellas…all proteins get broken down into aminos and then rebuilt by the cell for whatever it wants to use it for. Hence the reason you can cook meat and still eat it for protein.
I really think denaturing is only something that is truly a byproduct of something like pasteurization, not just heating in a microwave that only gets to 220 F, certainly not for a few minutes.
No, denaturing happens at much lower temperatures than 220F. Your body is about 37C…98.6F. The reason that you must stay at that temperature is because proteins are very sensitive to temperature and will denature in your body. You do not eat whole quaternary structures of proteins, digest them that way, and then simply put them in place like a freakin’ lego or something. You eat amino acids. Primary or secondary structures of proteins. They get broken down into amino acids.
DNA is transcriped to mRNA…mRNA is translated by tRNA to a protein by sticking together amino acids to make a protein. That protein undergoes folding and shaping and becomes a functional unit. Do not worry about freakin’ heating your protein.