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Twin

Posted : 10/26/2006 12:15:56 AM

What if you scramble the eggs lightly and mash up the shell and mix it with the eggs. Would this still be beneficial?

jessies_mom

Posted : 10/26/2006 9:12:11 PM

What if you scramble the eggs lightly and mash up the shell and mix it with the eggs. Would this still be beneficial

Dogs can get a lot of benefit from eating cooked eggs. There are studies that prove that humans digest cooked eggs better than raw eggs ; [linkhttp://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2439616]http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2439616[/link]
[linkhttp://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/128/10/1716]http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/128/10/1716[/link]

No similar studies have been done in dogs but I certainly think it's possible that they may digest cooked eggs better too.

jennie_c_d

Posted : 10/26/2006 9:42:22 PM

No similar studies have been done in dogs but I certainly think it's possible that they may digest cooked eggs better too.

Dog digestion=/=human digestion. I'm sure you've heard it all before.

Teenie doesn't tolerate cooked egg yolk. Cooking denatures the protein and makes it something completely different. I do lightly cook their egg whites, though, to kill the avadin. I want the biotin and efas in the yolk to stay intact, and Teenie's tummy to be happy, so the yolks stay raw.

racuda

Posted : 10/27/2006 5:52:52 PM

ORIGINAL: jennie_c_d

No similar studies have been done in dogs but I certainly think it's possible that they may digest cooked eggs better too.

Dog digestion=/=human digestion. I'm sure you've heard it all before.

Teenie doesn't tolerate cooked egg yolk. Cooking denatures the protein and makes it something completely different. I do lightly cook their egg whites, though, to kill the avadin. I want the biotin and efas in the yolk to stay intact, and Teenie's tummy to be happy, so the yolks stay raw.

So maybe a very soft boiled egg would work, with the white cooked and the yolk runny?

whtsthfrequency

Posted : 10/27/2006 7:17:06 PM

I think someone already mentioned it, but can't raw eggs severly inhibit some vitamin absorptions because of a protease that is rendered inactive by cooking?

jennie_c_d

Posted : 10/27/2006 10:32:31 PM

I think someone already mentioned it, but can't raw eggs severly inhibit some vitamin absorptions because of a protease that is rendered inactive by cooking?

That's the avadin, and the reason I cook the whites. Some people say that the yolk contains enough biotin (which is what avadin binds) to more than compensate for the avadin. With the conditions of hen houses, I don't believe it. Stress depletes B vitamins. I want my kiddos to get the biotin, so I leave the yolk raw.

dyan

Posted : 10/28/2006 6:32:05 PM

I cook my whites a bit...not taking any chances either. BUT if I only gave her an egg once in a while I wouldn't bother. I give Bubblegum one every day though, so I'm not taking chances. From the Mercola website:

However, recently a subscriber, Dr. Sharma, PhD, who is a biochemist with Bayer, contacted me about this issue. His investigation into the matter revealed that there is not enough biotin in an egg yolk to bind to all the avidin present in the raw whites. He found that 5.7 grams of biotin are required to neutralize all the avidin found in the raw whites of an average-sized egg. There are only about 25 micrograms -- or 25 millionths of a gram -- of biotin in an average egg yolk.
This is obviously not nearly enough to do the job. For this very reason, controlled diets of only raw egg whites lead to severe biotin deficiency

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Lynn

Posted : 10/28/2006 7:53:07 PM

So why even give egg whites? If that last post is true, then why not just give egg yolks?

Edie

Posted : 10/28/2006 9:52:03 PM

So why even give egg whites? If that last post is true, then why not just give egg yolks?

Good question [

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jennie_c_d

Posted : 10/28/2006 11:19:05 PM

So why even give egg whites? If that last post is true, then why not just give egg yolks?

The white is super low in fat, and high in protein. It is VERY digestible protein. At one point, all Emma could eat was egg white and white rice. It's the easiest protein for them to break down.

dyan

Posted : 10/29/2006 8:10:42 AM

The yolk contains between 50% and 80% of the copper, manganese, and selenium, while the white contains between 50% and 80% of the potassium, riboflavin, and essential amino acids.

Among other nutrients, this paragraph came from a link on the Internet about eggs. I think the amino acids are the key nutrients in the egg whites.

Lynn

Posted : 10/29/2006 1:37:12 PM

Odd! I would've thought that the yolk was the highest in protein. I missed egg anatomy in school!! Could've used that, and skipped calculus!

Alisia Jezierny

Posted : 10/30/2006 9:17:24 AM

Ok, I'm coming into this discussion a little late, and I'll admit that I've really only scanned the posts, so maybe I've missed something, but would it be a safe compromise to cook the eggs just a little, like sunny-side up or make a runny scramble? I would think that enough heat is applied then to kill most of the bacteria, while still retaining the integrity of the enzymes and amino acids.

dyan

Posted : 10/30/2006 8:45:27 PM

I'm sure your right aliziaj!
One of the grocery stores I shop at sells paturized eggs,,,you would never know anything was done to them when you crack them.
The price might give it away though!! lol!

gayle

Posted : 10/31/2006 3:16:13 AM

this is completly irrelevant, but i am up at 3am hard-boiling a dozen of them, none of which i will eat because i do not like eggs. this just made me laugh that there was a post about eggs. i don't feed my dog raw eggs, i have tried before though and he does not eat them for some reason, scrambled or boiled on the other hand....

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