I'm sorry but Mercola is a class A quack. He doesn't know what the f*** he's talking about. 1 in 30,000 eggs infected is not accurate because different parts of the country have different infection rates. It may be 1 in 10,000 where you live. Even if 30,000 were correct it would say nothing about YOUR chances of being infected. The CDC in 2000 estimated that 1 in 50 people would be exposed a year. 1 in 50. I doubt it's gotten better. Just cuz your exposed doesn't mean you will get seriously ill but Mercola is way off with his happy go lucky logic.

Another thing is you don't "deactivate" proteins. You "denature" them. Just because a protein is a little or a lot denatured doesn't mean that it is not biologically usefull. In fact, despite of the "raw-food" pseudo science he's spouting cooking and denaturing some of the animal proteins we ate is one of the things that helped us survive as a species. FIRE baby. It INCREASED the protein available. When it comes to protein quantity means a lot. Including with eggs.

If you don't cook your eggs you are giving up as much as FORTY percent of the protein. If I've got the math right, which is not my strong suit. Basically cooked eggs are used with about 92% efficiency and raw eggs with 52%. As far as it being denatured...your body breaks it down into short peptides and aminos anyway. You don't absorb whole proteins in their biologically "natural" form and use them that way. You use the individual building blocks of the whole proteins to make your own proteins. There may be some health benefits to certain proteins being consumed in their denatured form but it ain't about protein quality as such. Raw eggs are just not used as efficiently by the body.

Egg protein powders are pasteurized so there is no danger there. As far as the BV of the powders I don't know if they are the same as a cooked egg or if they compare more to a raw egg.

Instead of assuming that what "seems" to be true is true all one needs to do is look up the actual DATA that is available for things like this


LOL, I'm getting deja vu.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.