so i just ate my first raw egg....

Not me.

Salmonella....

http://portal.citysoup.ca/Living/Health+and+Wellness/Nutrition/Samonella+Prevention.htm

 

What are you? Rocky?

 

I wouldn't suggest it. The raw egg white protein (avidin) binds to biotin (vitamin H, also known as B7) and it will make a deficiency. You have bacteria in your intestines that make biotin, but if you're on antibiotics, it can kill those bacteria. It's best to cook the egg whites, which denatures the protein (unwraps it). It won't bind to biotin in that form.

Edit: And there really aren't nutritional benefits to eating raw eggs. It's just more convenient to eat/drink instead of heating them. Plus, the protein is the same after you cook it except for stucture. The structure, in either form, will be broken down in its simplest form, the amino acid, before entering your blood stream.

 

I eat 5 raw egg whites for breakfast daily. Separate the yolk from the whites and throw them away then mix the whites with a little more than an equal amount of orange juice and chug it. The OJ takes away %95 of the bad taste. Quick easy and keeps me going till lunch. Try it, let me know what you think. Oh, and by the way I have been doing this for at least 15 years and never had salmonella; knock on wood.
Bill

 

You eat it like breakfast ? Interesting, now I want to try this.

 

good for energy or to build muscle ?

 

phew. By looking at the thread title, I thought this was about going down on a girl during that time of a month... glad I'm wrong.

 

Well, egg white is made almost entirely of protein so it could be used to help bulid muscle. You won't get built by just eating it of course. As far as energy...all food is energy. It's protein so it isn't really used as the first source of energy your body uses (that's what free sugar in your blood and stored sugar in your liver and muscle is for).

 

I used to just boil them & just eat the egg whites only, I never was a fan of eating them raw.

 

Yeah, at least I did. Used to eat 10 egg whites a day for breakfast (cooked). I put on mass, but that was in the past. I was on a pretty strict diet. Slow burning carbs (whole grains basically). Why, is there something I said that you find incorrect? You burn free sugar in your blood and then stored sugar (glycogen) in your muscle and liver. Resting skeletal muscle burns fat.

 

Heh, I've been trying to motivate myself to get back in shape. I bought 72 eggs (good for a week) three weeks ago along with a lot of chicken breasts and fish, etc. I haven't gotten around to starting again. I just keep eating cereal since it's so much quicker than cooking eggs. I won't drink raw eggs because of what I said above even though it would be convenient as hell.

 

You have a twisted mind, Noah, a twisted mind.

 

BMW, what do you think about the idea that the yolk, which contains cholesterol, is best eaten while in the semi liquid state, perhaps, warmed up some, rather than cooking the smitherines out of it, solidifying it, which oxidizes the otherwise, unoxidized cholesterol? Concluding....soft egg with unoxidized cholesterol is better? (It's the oxidation that is the bad part?)
Joe

 

I agree with this. It is not beneficial to eat raw eggs.

You will find bodybuilding.com advises against it also.

 

I bet it gave you some nasty gas.

 

Woot, back on track. Started off with 10 egg whites and 4 slices of wheat bread for breakfast. Played a lot of bball today. I'm going to take it easy to get back to heavy weights slowly.

 

I don't eat yolks. One yolk is your 60% daily value of cholesterol and I get all of mine from chicken breasts (1lb of pre-cooked chicken breasts). But specifically, I never got into the depths of understand the oxidation of cholesterol. Sorry.

 

this **** is so complicated.

 

I just ate 2 salmon sandwiches with white bread, is that good or bad ?

 

hahahaha

The fish oil in salmon is very good. Can't go wrong with salmon Don't stress too much over white/wheat bread. Oats, wheat bread, grains, etc, have slow burning carbs.