there are some beauty food like collagen drinks/ collagen yoghurt out there, is collagen food not vegetarian?

Answer 1

25% of all animal protein is collagen so any drink or yoghurt made from meat would contain collagen.

As a protein if taken orally collagen is digested into amino acids, so eating or drinking it has very little effect on beauty, there are certain products containing collagen that claim that eating collagen does improve skin however so far every test on these products has shown they have no beneficial effect except on people suffering from protein deficiency. Someone suffering from protein deficiency will have poor joints, tendons and skin and as such would benefit from the collagen, but no more than any other dietary protein supplement.

Like most proteins collagen can be synthasised artificially using animal genes implanted into bacteria so a vegetarian form is available, however by far the easiest way to add collagen to the diet is to eat some meat or fish as all animals contain large amounts of collagen.

Answer 2

What a ridiculous marketing gimmick. Yes, collagen is derived from animals. No, collagen will NOT do anything for you. As monkeymanlvis said, collagen is digested and broken down into individual amino acids anyway. You can eat a tin of beans and rice and achieve the same effect. The body cannot absorb animal collagen and incorporate it. It's just not possible, any more than you can give a cow chocolate and expect it to make chocolate milk. Nor are there any special amino acids in collagen that you can't get from other sources.

Keep your intake of Vitamin C up. Vit. C is essential for collagen synthesis. Scurvy is really the body's inability to make collagen, which causes tissue breakdown. The cure for scurvy is of course Vitamin C, not meat or gelatin, despite their high collagen content. Once again disproving this disgusting marketing ploy.

Think of all the sailors who died at sea for lack of Vitamin C (i.e. lack of collagen). What did meat do for them? Nothing.

We sometimes forget that the human body has a marvellous ability to manufacture what it needs - as long as you give it all the raw materials. In this case, an orange is far more useful to the body than a bucketful of gelatin.

Answer 3

Collagen is derived from animals so therefore any food containing collagen would not be vegetarian. I don't understand how they can be classified as beauty foods - usually collagen is used in the so called beauty industry by injecting into wrinkles to give people trout lips?

Answer 4

I believe collagen is derived from animals.

Answer 5

Beauty food?

if its not vegetarian i doubt that it contributes much to beauty, the whole saturated fat thing and all :/

oxidization is one of the biggest contributers to the visible signs of again, to combat this i would suggest eating a very healthy diet with little saturated fat content, that is high in alkaline plant matter (leafy greens) and essential fatty acids (nuts, seeds, avacado, olive oil, vegetable oils) and anti-oxidants (more veggies, berries, herbal teas).

Also, exercise, sunshine and happy thoughts.

Good Luck : )

Answer 6

Collagen usually comes from placentas (afterbirth), probably from cows and pigs.

Answer 7

I think not.

Answer 8

no!

Answer 9

Dunno