** Can protein powder be cooked, baked etc? **

[johniemi]

Just a quick question that has bothered me for a very long time; does (whey) protein powder lose it's "efficiency" when cooked or baked?

I like pancakes a lot, and I was wondering could I add some protein powder to the milk-flour-egg- mix and then blend and fry the pancakes? Also adding some protein to my rice or oat gruel during cooking would seem a pretty good idea?

PS. Please don't tell me to buy some "high-protein pancake/gruel/whatever mix", I make my own food from raw ingredients and don't use industrial mixes etc.

Thanks.

-John

 

[Nimrod25]

From what I understand heating protein lowers the quality significantly. Not sure exactly why, but I will bump for ya.

 

[SUST-MAN]

i have eaten met-rx protien pancakes......and protien oatmeal....i love em both...i i think it worked great

 

[johniemi]

bump

 

[decem]

i wouldn't think that either oatmeal or pancakes cook long enough or hot enough to degrade the protein.

 

[Widi]

I use an egg protein from Optimum and on the container you can read: for shakes, cooking, baking...

Think for a moment: IF cooking degrades protein then we should eat our red meat, poultry, fish, whatever, raw? Don't think so.

 

[Stew Meat]

Heat will denature the proteins damaging heat susceptable amino acids such as taurine, lysine, leucine, glutamine and a couple of others. However, this effect is not going to destroy a large percentage of the available protein. Eating heated protein is better than no protein at all... it just is not as availible.



-Stew