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Cooking Heat
Human Nutrition / The Role of Proteins in Foods: Cooking and Denaturation
"During cooking the applied heat causes proteins to vibrate. This destroys the weak bonds holding them in their complex shape, though this does not happen to the stronger peptide bonds. The unraveled protein strands then stick together, forming an aggregate or network."
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