connective tissue contains precious calories?

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connective tissue contains precious calories?

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RRM, u said that when eating meat you remove the connective tissue from your mouth after swallowing all the nutritious meat protein, because the connective tissue is difficult to digest...
Do you know what the chemical composition of this connective tissue is? Does it contain any fat, or does it serve no purpose making the meat more difficult to digest? I usually take the connective tissue out my mouth, but today i wasted like 100g on a very tough piece. Seems a waste, it may contain precious calories.
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Connective tissue consists of proteinous fibers, like collagen and elastin.
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Can that be digested?
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I think it's digested like other fibers, so by bacteria.
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Some of the fiber and collagen gets bacterially decomposed indeed (causing gasses), but most of it leaves our body undigested.
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Sometimes I noticed some dry blood on my salmon and chicken. Sometimes I see a vein or two. Are these all okay to eat? About the connective tissue, do they contain enzyme inhibitors just like the egg white and the sack? Is it recommended(compulsory or optional) to remove them?
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No, they dont contain enzyme inhibitors.
Its perfectly okay to ingest them.
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What about the dry blood?
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Blood contains all kind of nutrients.
Its food.
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Well, reason I ask is what if the animal is infected with some disease? Won't eating the blood cause any problems? Just like how AIDs is spread, through contact with bodily liquids like blood. And what about growth hormones? Won't they be in the blood?
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Yes, well, raw beef always contains blood.
All raw meat contains bodily fluids.
And al meat contains very low levels of growth hormones,
just like our own body.
Eating blood is very different from blood-to-blood contact.
Eating it, the blood is digested first,
meaning that it is áttacked by digestive enzymes and acids,
and also only selectively ingested.
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Eating blood is very different from blood-to-blood contact.
Eating it, the blood is digested first,
meaning that it is áttacked by digestive enzymes and acids,
and also only selectively ingested.
Hmm, then why is it that an Aedes mosquito contracts a dengue virus when it sucks the blood of an infected human being?
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Kookaburra wrote: Hmm, then why is it that an Aedes mosquito contracts a dengue virus when it sucks the blood of an infected human being?
It distracts the blood containing the virus, and transports it.
I doubt that it gets sick.
It will then transfer the virus by stinging someone else; blood to blood contact.
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It distracts the blood containing the virus, and transports it.
Wow, I didn't know that the mosquito has the ability to know whether the blood contains a virus and is able to distract it. It is a smart insect despite its size.
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I didnt say that it knows that the blood is infected...
It just distracts the blood, which is its food.
And which may happen to contain a virus,
which may get transferred when it distracts blood from the next person.
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