Getting some eggcercise!

After a good work out you feel great but your body cells are on its way to become starved. More sooner than later they will need to replenish its stock of valuable nutrients if you want to regenerate tissue from the stress of exercise or to grow new one - muscle or whatever is necessary. What better food for this situation than egg protein. The actual standard against which nutritionists compare all other edible proteins. Highly digestible, readily bioavailable, egg protein powder is pure protein for your body needs. Really, egg protein enjoys a canonical standing in the nutrition sciences...

Egg protein status PDCAA Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score Measures the Completeness of a protein Biological value Percentage of absorbed protein utilized by the body Protein Efficiency Ratio Measures protein ability to sustain growth 1.0

BV

100

PER

3.9

Food

BV

PER

PDCAA

Whey isolate Egg white Casein Cow milk Soy Beef

104 100 77 91 96 80 2.30 3.92 2.86

1.14 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.92

* Protein Quality-Report of Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation, Food and Agriculture Organisation, Rome, FAO Food and Nutrition Paper 51, 1991. * Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The Amino Acid Content of Foods and Biological Data on Proteins. Nutritional Study. Rome. (1970). UNIPUB, Inc., 4611-F Assembly Drive, Lanham

Since some protein has been metabolized into glycogen, water and mineral during exercise, an adequate supplementation of quality protein is of paramount importance. So, after strenuous exercise, nutritious eggcercise!