Kevo asked:
Question:
I dont nuke em first, I did once but it made my shake all warm and tasted like pish. Do you think I will be ok doing this or am I taking a big chance by having them raw??
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:lift: Mate Just get a good quality protein shake down you!!!
give the raw eggs a miss!!!
I used to do this, 1 whole raw egg, 6 raw whites.
Did it for 6 months with no problems, but i got scared of salmonella so stopped doing it.
Made great gains in that time...
I put 3 raw eggs in my shakes (I have 2-4 shakes a day depending what else I've been eating, so that's 6-12 raw eggs each day) and have been doing so for a while with no problems.
I think there's something like a 1 in 20,000 chance of getting salmonella from eating raw eggs, so I'm happy to take those odds personally
Well ya wouldn't want a warm shake ;)
whole eggs are unfortunately missed by some and imo they make a massive difference... plus whats wrong with a good quality protein blend with 3-4 eggs in it??
agreed with big again though - i have 6 raw whole eggs a day and not had salmonella and bloods are fine too - so i'm pretty healthy too...
i think the odds of getting salmonella is a lot higher than than though ;)
Since I've got too much time on my hands today, I looked up the odds of getting salmonella:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract
Although this is only for the US, of the 69 billion eggs they produce, 2.3 million are contaminated, which is 0.003%, or 1 in 30,000.
I also found this on a health a website about the benefits or raw eggs over cooked eggs:
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Egg whites contain a glycoprotein called "avidin" which binds biotin - one of the B vitamins - very effectively. The cooking process deactivates the avidin in the egg, much the same way it deactivates every other protein in the egg white.
While it is true that eating too many raw egg whites by themselves will cause you to suffer from a biotin deficiency, the fact is that nature created the egg in such a way that its yolk is very rich in biotin. One of the highest concentration in nature. Eat the egg whole together with the egg white and you will be fine.
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what i do is add ice cubes to my shake with the water/eggs/whey/oats
no need mate (for blender to crush ice cubes) add the ice cubes after the shake is made just to cool it a lil.
There are raw eggs in egg nog so I would say that drinking raw eggs is safe.
If you aren't sure about the safety, crack your eggs in a bowl first, if the yolk spreads and doesn't stay in a nice little sphere shape then it may have Salmonella in it.
Cook that egg.