Perhaps you have heard it mentioned in a television commercial: collagen. Collagen is a protein naturally present in your skin. It ensures elastic and firm skin. After the age of 25, you lose about 1% of collagen per year; collagen production declines. After the age of 50, collagen is often no longer produced at all. So, it is high time to give collagen production a helping hand! But is this possible with vegan collagen?
What is plant-based collagen?
Plant-based collagen does not exist. Collagen is always of animal origin. Therefore, collagen supplements are made exclusively from animal products. After all, animals produce collagen, whereas plants do not. But how do you obtain plant-based collagen as a vegan? Some collagen supplements claim to be plant-based, but are actually a protein/amino acid mixture. The real collagen is missing, and therefore does not stimulate your body to produce (more) collagen.
What do you need vegan collagen for?
The body is made up of 15 to 20% various types of proteins. Collagen is the most abundant protein, making up 30 to 40%. As mentioned at the beginning, collagen helps maintain radiant, firm, and elastic skin. But it doesn't just help your skin; it is also found in muscles, bones, blood vessels, teeth, hair, nails, cartilage, tendons, and joints.
How do you get collagen if you are vegan?
Maintaining your collagen levels can be achieved by eating the right foods. Collagen production requires vitamin C. For those who want extra collagen but do not eat vegan, salmon, eggs, bone marrow broth, and white meats such as chicken are excellent sources of collagen.
The alternative: a vegan collagen supplement?
Sometimes it is not feasible to eat the right collagen-rich products, or it is precisely the foods that you do not like. Fortunately, there is the option of taking a collagen supplement. After all, while you can apply a cream containing collagen to your skin, this unfortunately has no effect whatsoever on collagen formation. Thanks to a collagen supplement, you get the full benefit at once. It works from the inside out. However, unfortunately, a vegan collagen supplement is not possible. Supplements claiming to be plant-based collagen (vegan) do not contain di- and tri-peptides, such as the hydrolyzed Fish collagen As a result, it does not have the same effect.
Want to buy collagen?
Would you like to buy collagen? At Arctic Blue we only sell Fish collagen Powder made from wild Norwegian cod. Wild fish has a very good amino acid profile and therefore yields a high-quality collagen powder.
It is good to know that we do not catch any extra fish for our collagen powder! We work with fillet trimmings. These trimmings remain after the fillet has been removed for the supermarket. For this, we collaborate with Norwegian fishermen who work according to strict MSC regulations. Therefore, the production of our fish oil has no adverse effects on the oceans, the environment, or the local population. No overfishing occurs, and fish stocks remain healthy. This method has earned us the MSC certification, making us the first collagen product in the Netherlands to receive it.
We have a delicious strawberry-flavored Fish collagen that dissolves well, even in cold drinks and yogurt. It contains acerola powder with natural vitamin C, which is important for the formation of the body's own collagen. It consists of peptides (86%) and powder from the acerola fruit. This is a type of cherry from the tropics with a high content of natural vitamin C. Compared to an orange, it contains 30 times more vitamin C. Therefore, we do not use synthetic ascorbic acid.
Us Fish collagen The powder is most similar to human collagen. It is easy to digest. The substances are quickly absorbed by the body, which is especially beneficial if you have digestive issues.
We also have a natural Fish collagen version. This contains no natural flavoring or natural sweetener stevia, but only the collagen protein. The protein content is even slightly higher: 95%. The powder does smell like the sea, but when stirred into yogurt or a smoothie, you won't taste it at all.
Vegan collagen experiences
We supply extensively to professional skin therapists' practices and beauty salons, as there is increasing interest in how nutrition can improve the skin from within. We also supply the elderly and athletes who benefit from a higher intake of healthy proteins for muscle recovery, growth, and maintenance.
Would you like to buy Fish collagen ? Order sustainable Fish collagen products in the webshop of Arctic Blue and benefit from the many advantages that collagen offers us.
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