Ovomucin
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Ovomucin is a trypsin inhibitor
found in raw egg white
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Ovomucin has nine disulfide bonds.
Trypsin inhibitor
Trypsin inhibitors are chemicals that reduce the availability of trypsin, an enzyme essential to nutrition of many animals, including humans.There are four commercial sources of trypsin inhibitors....
found in raw egg white
Egg white
Egg white is the common name for the clear liquid contained within an egg. In chickens it is formed from the layers of secretions of the anterior section of the hen's oviduct during the passage of the egg. It forms around either fertilized or unfertilized egg yolks...
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Ovomucin has nine disulfide bonds.