Does microwaving or heating a protein shake destroy any of the nutrients?

Question

I like to put my chocolate protein shake in the microwave for 30 seconds so it tastes like a hot chocolate. Is this ruining the proteins at all? Would heating on the stove be okay?

Answer 1

you don't want to directly heat whey. the protein structures are very fragile and can easily be damaged by heat. it's best to heat the liquid then mix in the whey after. there's no problem cooking with soy or egg white protein powders.

Answer 2

Microwaving has been known to alter the structure of foods. Changing some amino acids into known carcinogens. Structures of molecules are torn apart, molecules are forcefully deformed, called structural isomerism, and thus become impaired in quality.

Microwaving prepared meats sufficiently to insure sanitary ingestion caused formation of d-Nitrosodienthanolamines, a well-known carcinogen.
Microwaving milk and cereal grains converted some of their amino acids into carcinogens.
Thawing frozen fruits converted their glucoside and galactoside containing fractions into carcinogenic substances.
Extremely short exposure of raw, cooked or frozen vegetables converted their plant alkaloids into carcinogens.
Carcinogenic free radicals were formed in microwaved plants, especially root vegetables.
Decrease in nutritional value
Russian researchers also reported a marked acceleration of structural degradation leading to a decreased food value of 60 to 90% in all foods tested. Among the changes observed were:
Deceased bio-availability of vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropics factors in all food tested.
Various kinds of damaged to many plant substances, such as alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides and nitrilosides.
The degradation of nucleo-proteins in meats.


Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven

1). Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term - permanent - brain damage by "shorting out" electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].

2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.

3). Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

5). Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.

6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.

7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in America.

8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.

10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.


This is contrary to conventional heating of food where heat transfers convectionally from without to within.

Answer 3

Not so's you'd notice. Of course, if your diet is so poor that you need protein supplements, this is the least of your problems.

Answer 4

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