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Old 07-08-2009, 06:24 PM   #13 (permalink)
shalafi
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Originally Posted by JamesB View Post
Its the sulfur.

Turkey has a larger than average proportion of methionine and cysteine which are both sulfur bearing amino-acids. Cysteine being the most likely offender due to the pKa of the sulfhydryl (thiol) group.

[edit: missed 'hy' in sulfhydryl]

please tell me you had to look that up. I'm gonna feel even dumber if theres people who just carry that kind of info around in their head.
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