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+ 4 Drinking Liquid Egg Whites

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https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/128/10/1716/4723080

I see many people on here asking is it ok to drink Liquid egg whites. And yes I mean the liquid egg whites you buy in the carton.

The answer is yes technically you can drink liquid egg whites, and no you will not get salmonella from doing it.
But by drinking the liquid egg whites raw you are only getting 50% of the advertised protein amount, The amount per serving is 13g protein, so your getting 6 to 6.5g protein in that 1/2 cup serving which means you need to drink an entire measured cup of egg whites to get the full serving of protein .

If you do not believe me there are many other studies proving as much about liquid egg whites all over the web. I know there are several sources that sell liquid egg whites promoting drinking there products and why wouldn't they its literally the quickest way for you to ingest there product so you have to go out and buy more.

If you insist on mixing in egg whites with your protein shakes, try simply microwaving it then pureeing the egg whites with a bit of milk in a blender abracadabra cooked liquid egg whites.

hope this puts that question to rest.

tonytouch145's picture

Are people in that much of a rush that they can’t take the 3 minutes to cook the eggs in a pan.

tonymontanaa's picture

"But by drinking the liquid egg whites raw you are only getting 50% of the advertised protein amount"

After a bit research I reached out the same result but apart from the protein portion, consuming whole egg would lead to consuming fat also. In the egg whites you get 50-60% of protein but you don't get any fat since there is no in the egg white.

So if you are in diet the egg whites are more preferable. For the people who finde the liquid egg whites tasteless I recommend to mix them with onions, mushroom and tomato Smile have a nice meal...

addicted.to.pain's picture

True consuming whole eggs does include fat but, it's good fats, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and the yellows aid the over all digestion of the protein in the eggs.

In the egg whites you get 50-60% of protein but you don't get any fat since there is no in the egg white.

Yes true but true only if you don't cook them, simply cook them and boom you get all the protein. And to your previous statement I am in know way condoning eating raw whole eggs, doing so runs the risk of salmonella . I suggest cooking your eggs whether they are whole or liquid egg whites.

addicted.to.pain's picture

yep same here , Liquid egg whites are way over priced. Just eat whole eggs, or remove the yellows if need be.

DfromPhilly's picture

Motherfucker. I’ve never drank them but that is some shit right there. Great info. Thank you. ++

Beltabuser's picture

Egg whites contain avidin which is a protein that binds to biotin to block absorption. This is why people say you’re only able to utilize about 50% of the protein in uncooked egg whites. Egg whites need to be cooked to render this protein inert. Muscle egg claimed that through pasteurization avidin is rendered inert, but they need to be heated to 158 degrees for that to happen, and pasteurization takes place much lower, about 138. I think egg whites turn the cooked white color at 144 degrees so they need to be pretty well cooked to get to 158 degrees to inactivate the avidin.

“The avidin-biotin complex is resistant to denaturation and proteolysis. Avidin was irreversibly denatured at temperatures higher than 158F (70C) but the complex was stable to 212F (100C).“

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GreatSpear's picture

Thanks for that science drop, Learn more every day!

johnmarshall12's picture

Yes you can drink liquid egg whites, but I prefer mine cooked.

tonytouch145's picture

Idk about that. Not for me at least. I eat 1 egg and 8 whites every morning and it’s the least filling meal of my day.

press1's picture

Lol Of course its easier to drink them than eat them cooked - Same as its easier to drink a 50g protein shake than it is to eat 2 chicken breasts.

addicted.to.pain's picture

if one is drinking them raw yes your getting half the protein.

press1's picture

So cooking them increases the protein then?

addicted.to.pain's picture

It changes the chemical structure of the egg whites allowing your body to absorb the protein . Just read the study bro I'm not making this up.

press1's picture

Hey Bud I completely believe ya - Just never heard of it before Smile

GreatSpear's picture

I wouldn’t say increase, but it makes it more bioavailable. Same with a lot of foods, by cooking them your body is able to extract more nutrition from it. With egg whites the heat changes the structure of the protein ( going from liquid to solid) and while the quantity of protein hasn’t changed, the protein itself has changed and you are now able to use more of it.

press1's picture

Here's a question for ya bud (or anyone else lol) Do you happen to know if by consuming the Egg white which is pure Albumin whether that increases the albumin levels in your blood or is serum completely different to the food protein version?

GreatSpear's picture

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1755-6686.2011.00212.x

It would appear that drinking raw egg whites does help in patients with renal issues, whether that transfers over into healthy patients or not, I couldn’t find. I suppose it can’t hurt if your albumin is low!

maddogg's picture

It doesn’t increase the protein but it makes it more bioavailable. When egg whites turn white while cooking them that is the protein bonds braking down. So I think that’s what he means. Like when you under cook a steak and it is still chewy the protein bonds haven’t been broken down and the protein is less bioavailable. Conversely if you over cook a steak and it gets tuff the proteins have been fused and are less bioavailable. Like the protein in bacon isn’t that bioavailable because it turns crispy quickly due to the proteins fusing

GreatSpear's picture

Unlike eggs, cooking steak has been shown to not change the nutritional content of the meat (other than some fat loss by cooking it and the fat melting and running off)

Edit: credit to Greg for this knowledge.
https://www.eroids.com/forum/training-nutrition-diet/whats-for-dinner/go...

press1's picture

Aahh bloody hell - never knew that! lol So a raw steak is worse than say a medium cooked steak in terms of the protein you are able to digest from it then?

maddogg's picture

It’s easier for your stomach to break down and digest because the heat has helped to break down the protein bonds

GreatSpear's picture

The denaturation of the muscle fibers does not change the availability of protein in steak. The only change in protein content that comes from cooking steak is the loss from charred portion of the steak, when cooked too much the protein is unusable and can no longer be broken down into amino acids for your body to absorb.

maddogg's picture

Yea that’s what I said about fused proteins in my first comment. And cooking the meat to break down the protein bonds does increase availability of amino acids especially lucine, which is what is was taught in the nutrition elective that I took in college but I thought well maybe I was taught wrong, so I googled it. Maybe you should google it.

GreatSpear's picture

I think the confusion lies in how we are each using “availability”. It appears to me that you are using it to refer to the ease of accessibility of the amino acids while I’m using it to refer to how much protein is in the food for possible absorption. You’re absolutely right that by cooking it the body is able to access the amino acids easier, but cooking it does not change the quantity available other than loosing some to char. Your body has to work harder to break down raw meat, but the protein is still all there and wouldn’t make much of a difference unless you only had raw or cooked meat to choose from as your only food source and a limited supply at that. Then of course you’d want to eat cooked meat so save your body the extra energy spent breaking down the raw meat. Fortunately, we don’t live in a science experiment like the mice in the study below.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228431/#!po=0.980392