Perhaps you have already 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, as 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 animal-based. Collagen supplements are therefore only made from animal products. Animals produce collagen; plants do not. So how do you get 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% of various types of proteins. Collagen is the most common protein at 30 to 40%. As mentioned at the beginning, collagen helps maintain radiant, firm and elastic skin. But it does not only help your skin; it is also found in muscles, bones, blood vessels, teeth, hair, nails, cartilage, bones, muscles, tendons and joints.
How do you get collagen if you are vegan?
Maintaining your collagen level 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, broth with marrow bone and white meat 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 they are exactly the foods you do not like. Fortunately, there is then the option of taking a collagen supplement. You can apply a cream with collagen to your skin, but unfortunately this has no effect whatsoever on collagen formation. Thanks to a collagen supplement, you get everything in one go. It works from within. But unfortunately, a vegan collagen supplement is not possible. Supplements that claim to be plant-based collagen (vegan) do not contain di- and tri-peptides, such as hydrolysed fish collagen. As a result, it does not have the same effect.
Buying 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 fine amino acid profile and therefore produces a high-quality collagen powder.
What is good to know is that we do not catch any extra fish for our collagen powder! We work with fillet trimmings. These trimmings are left over after the fillet has been removed for the supermarket. For this we work together with Norwegian fishermen who operate according to the strict MSC regulations. Making our fish oil therefore has no adverse effects on the oceans, the environment or local communities. There is no overfishing and the fish stock remains healthy. This way of working has earned us, as the first collagen product in the Netherlands, the MSC label.
We have a delicious fish collagen with strawberry flavour that dissolves well, even in cold drinks and yoghurt. 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. So we do not use synthetic ascorbic acid.
Our fish collagen powder is the most similar to human collagen. It is easy to digest. The substances are quickly absorbed by the body, which is extra pleasant if you have difficult digestion.
We also have a natural fish collagen version. This contains no natural flavouring or natural sweetener stevia, only the collagen protein. The protein content is even slightly higher: 95%. The powder does smell of the sea, but stirred into yoghurt or a smoothie, you will not taste it at all.
Vegan collagen experiences
We supply many practices of professional skin therapists and beauty salons, because there is growing interest here in how nutrition can improve the skin from within. But also to 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 Arctic Blue webshop and take advantage of the many benefits collagen offers us.
At Arctic Blue you can order individual products or take out a convenient subscription.
You will then automatically receive your desired product. You can take out your subscription online and always easily cancel it (after the minimum number of deliveries) by email.
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