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Your book sounds like BS to me. Yes, cooking does denature proteins. Think of an egg before and after you boil it. On the other hand, it seems unlikely to me t
by zasz 17y ago
Your book sounds like BS to me. Yes, cooking does denature proteins. Think of an egg before and after you boil it.
On the other hand, it seems unlikely to me that the hydrochloric acid in your stomach doesn't also denature the hell out of proteins. In fact, your body probably has to denature proteins to get at the amino acids in them so it can build the precise proteins it needs.
- carbocation 17y agoThis is correct. With perhaps a few exceptions, your body is not in the business of absorbing whole proteins. Trypsin is one of the enzymes used to reduce peptides (protein fragments) into even smaller blocks (often down to amino acids). So yeah, whether or not that protein is denatured before your duodenum, it sure as hell will be afterwards. At least, so one hopes.