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I am going to assume that you are asking if cooking an egg has any affect on how your body absorbs its proteins.

The answer is; not really. Your body would still get all the protein, though it would have to work harder if it was a raw egg.

Think of cooking as a process that is very similar to digestion. When our bodies digest proteins, we are actually breaking them down into their peptides and essential amino acids. So all you are doing by cooking the egg is to 'pre-digest' a bit in order to give your body less work to do.

In other words, when Sly Stallone 'Rocky' drank the raw eggs, it was more of an exhibition on masochism than good nutrition.


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