I’m studying for a test in cognitive neuroscience tomorrow, and this wasn’t covered by the textbook.
Going by the Wikipedia article, it appears to be mostly water and protein. I’d reckon that it’s almost exactly the same makeup as an egg–which I recall is just a large single cell–and so thinking Wiki’ed it up and indeed:
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](Egg white - Wikipedia)
Bolding added.
Probably be safer to cook it, but you should be safe.
It’s as save to eat as the source of the cytoplasm is - If you eat raw meat such as beafsteak tartare, you ingest the cytoplasm as well as the cell organelles, plasma membranes and extracellular matrix of the animal cells, if you eat raw vegetables, part of what you ingest is the cytoplasm of the plant cells. As sage rat said, egg white is the closest to animal cell cytoplasm you can get without investing in a powerful centrifuge to separate the constituents of the cells. The cytoplasm of somatic (body) cells probably contains more ribonucleic acids (ribosomes, tRNA, mRNA) and a more diverse mixture of proteins than plain Egg white, but as long as the whole tissue is free from infective agents and toxins, and thus save to ingest without cooking, the cytoplasm of the cells that make up this tissue is save to eat, too.
I get off to a fast start each day by drinking Mitochondria-Boost. Lots of ATP for quick energy.
A bit syrupy, though.
DNA is pretty tasty
Looks like snot though. What a shame.
I hear it’s good pan fried.
Ever see “The Matrix”? Remember breakfast?
Tasted like chicken.