What is in hydrolyzed gelatin?!

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Gelatin is the hydrolyzed connective tissue from an animal. Usually from the skin and bones of an animal, generally a pig.

The process involves adding enzymes which break the proteins down. The process separates the proteins along hydrogen bonds. This process is called hydrolysis.

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I Googled "Hydrolyzed Gelatin" and this is what came up. Google is pretty easy to use...

"Hydrolyzed gelatin is an incomplete protein. However, it is one of the best sources of the amino acids (protein building blocks) that comprise collagen.in Hydrolyzed gelatin there are These glycine, proline, hydroxyproline, lysine and hydroxylysine."

If you're vegetarian, you shouldn't be eating anything with the word "gelatin" in it. It's animal collagen, skin, and connective tissues.

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Hydrolyzed collagen is usually made from type I collagen by an enzymatic hydrolysis process. It is also called collagen hydrolysate, collagen peptide, gelatine, gelatine hydrolysate and hydrolyzed gelatine.

Hydrolyzed collagen is mainly extracted from the bones and the skin from porcine, bovine and fish origin. The hydrolysis process allows to cut the collagen protein of about 300 000 Da, in small peptides having an average molecular weight comprise between 2000 and 5000 Da.

Hydrolyzed collagen is a highly digestible protein, and an oral ingestion has been reported as having beneficial effects on joint & bone health, on skin health and for weight management and sports performance.

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Hydrolyzed gelatin is also known as hydrolyzed collagen protein or HCP. It is derived from the building blocks of connective tissue.

Most gelatin is made from the connective tissue and bones of pigs. Kosher gelatin is probably fish.