If you are cooking meat and it has parasites - say salmon with tapeworm (which is common in tapeworm) ---- does cooking the salmon essentailly destroy the molecular structure of the tapeworms - or are you just eating cooked tapeworms? Weird Q. I know!
2006-09-08 05:30:20 · 3 answers · asked by Lake Lover 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I mean common in salmon!
2006-09-08 05:31:08 · update #1
When you cook the meat, you will disrupt the protien structure, and denature protiens in a parasite or microbe. They will be killed, but not neccesarily destroyed. So, im sorry to say to you that you are pretty much eating cooked tapeworm and cooked bacteria. Just remember that they can no longer harm you... and that their composition is very similar to that of the meat. They are not dirty, germy, or anything like that. They are no longer alive and cannot hurt your body sytems whenever they are dead.
I know it is probably hard to accept that in the mind... but just remember that they can no longer hurt you, and they probably provide some extra nutrition!
2006-09-08 05:50:37 · answer #1 · answered by PetLover 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually it depends on the parasite, on how long you cook the food and at what temperature. Furthermore there are bacteria which form spores that are very resistant to heat.
So Petlover if you were thinking about "parasite-surprise" for dinner you'd better think again...
2006-09-08 17:17:16 · answer #2 · answered by bellerophon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you burn to they become simple carbon.
2006-09-08 16:17:37 · answer #3 · answered by Aubrey J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋