Leslie longs to learn…Ok I understand that collagen coffee isn’t a good idea because of all the coffee you’d have to drink. But what about these new marshmallows from Eat Yourself Beautiful? Do they work any better?
The Right Brain responds:
As the Left Brain previously explained, there is some research touting the benefits of ingestible collagen. According to one study, ingesting 11 grams per day of the right kind of collagen can protect your skin from UV-B induced skin damage. So the question for any given product is if it has enough of the right kind of collagen. In the case of coffee, our calculations showed this wasn’t a very practical way to eat that much collagen. Marshmallows maybe a different matter.
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Unfortunately, the website for Eat Yourself Beautiful doesn’t reveal how much collagen their marshmallows contain. But we do know from another source that a Japanese manufacturer makes a marshmallow with 3 grams of collagen, so you’d only need to about 4 of those a day to get the benefits we’ve read about. So it’s certainly possible the marshmallows from Eat Yourself Beautiful are equally collagen-packed.
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Egads! Of all the…this is so ridiculous that I had to look it up. They do exist in GB.
If one is going to go through some major hoops to find strange products like these, why not use the time to create a heathy diet and follow through?
Because healthy diets are boring. And some of us are actually allergic to the healthy things. Like whole wheat. But companies very rarely make healthy alternatives for those with allergies. You have to go out of your way to specialty stores and then spend twice as much.
what about all the products at vitamin shopp or GNC?? can you recommend on from there?
What about eating gelatin? I know gelatin is made from a hydrolysed form of collagen. Would it provide similar benefits?
Should we all be rushing out and sprinkling edible gelatin (unflavoured) into our daily meals to boost our intake?
Jami, a healthy diet isn’t boring. And I, too, have food allergies. The marshmallows contain soy protein – my allergy – which is a collagen source, but so are most animal proteins.
It just seems like a stretch, to pay exhorbitant sums of money and eat large amounts of sugar puffs or pop a pill in an effort to reduce wrinkles, when one could eat fruits, vegetables, meats and fish and have the same results. There is no guarantee that ingesting collagen helps so why not reap all the benefits a good meal plan can provide?
The website states: Each packet contains 3000mg of collagen peptides.
I disagree, healthy diets are boring.
I’d never heard of this before. Where does the collagen come from?
Healthy diets are hard to get in the habit of, but once you do it’s easy, and the benefits aren’t something most people would give up after experiencing.
There are so many options out there that target aging…
Marshmallows that improve your skin!? Awesome! Shame I hate marshmallow.
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