I watching a survival show and one of the survival experts said that an egg with a chick inside has more protein. I understand an egg is laid with all the nutrients necessary for a chick to grow inside so I wondered how a an egg with a chick inside could have more protein than an egg with just the whites and yolk.
Edit: slight rephrasing of the question to be more clear.
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Simple. He was wrong. Unless the egg in question had amino acids that were turned into protein, in which case it would become less easily digestible since our body is break down protein into amino acids to use it
Yes, that’s correct! As the chick develops inside the egg, it actually absorbs some of the protein from the egg itself, making the protein levels higher
It’s like a little protein boost for the growing chick.
Protein content inside the egg white and yolk decreases. But if you’re planning to eat the egg along with the chick you’ll get the same amount of protein
Probably, because the yolk has fat and if the chick converts the fat to protein then yes. Although in terms of mass, the egg would be the same, but composition could change due to chemical reactions.
Protein is made of amino acids and they are quite stable, and animals are not able to produce amino acids(they can make one acid into another tho) therefore since a egg is a closed system, the amino acid content, and thus the protein is constant.
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