How Much Protein Can You Absorb Per Meal?

[potto]

Why on earth would you want to eat raw eggs? Was it not already proven many times that your body can absorb less than half of the protein when you eat a raw eggs vs a cooked egg?

I don't know, was it? Show me where it says it was. Even if you do I bet I can find an equal number of sources that says that raw eggs are fully digestible. Or maybe even sources that are saying that cooking kills the protein, or something similar.

I have no idea which is true, but point being that there is a lot of contradictory information. Who is to say which is right. All I know is that I get good gains with raw eggs as part of my diet, and they are easier and quicker to eat than cooked eggs. Therefore i see no reason to change them just beacuse some guy on a website (probably a regurgitator of information anyway) said so.

[schnupi]

if it works for you, that's fine..didn't mean sound offensive to your ideas really. the journal of nutrition did a study, tested on humans, on digestibility of protein from raw and cooked eggs - here is the short version: http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/short/128/10/1716

[SamuraiMark]

Why on earth would you want to eat raw eggs? Was it not already proven many times that your body can absorb less than half of the protein when you eat a raw eggs vs a cooked egg?

I don't know, was it? Show me where it says it was. Even if you do I bet I can find an equal number of sources that says that raw eggs are fully digestible. Or maybe even sources that are saying that cooking kills the protein, or something similar.

I have no idea which is true, but point being that there is a lot of contradictory information. Who is to say which is right. All I know is that I get good gains with raw eggs as part of my diet, and they are easier and quicker to eat than cooked eggs. Therefore i see no reason to change them just beacuse some guy on a website (probably a regurgitator of information anyway) said so.

Schnupi is correct. Digestibility of protein from cooked eggs is much higher than raw. This is not contradictory information. Check google scholar, check NIH, check any reputable source. Raw eggs offer no nutritional benefit over cooked.

Is there any reason to suspect that the DRIs for protein are not adequate?

Joe Average: 0.8g/kg
Power athletes: 1.6 - 1.7g/kg
Endurance athletes: 1.2 - 1.6g/kg

Excess protein just gets broken down and stored as fat. Perhaps better too much if you are trying to bulk up, but getting carried away will just make you fat.

Mark