Are health products containing plant collagen more worth buying?

Shanghai reader Ms. Meng asked: Recently, I have seen a lot of health care products claim to be rich in "plant collagen", want to ask experts, plant collagen is a substance? Are health products containing this substance more worth buying? "The concept of plant collagen" is a super gimmick, " said Yun Yun, Ph.D., a food engineering major in the Department of Agriculture and Biology at Purdue University in the United States.
all collagen comes from animals, and there is no "collagen" from plants in the world.
collagen is a structural protein widely found in animal skin, bone and other tissues.
there is no such tissue in plants, nor is there such a protein.
that contain "plant collagen" in marketing ads, such as silver ears, peach gum, coral grass, etc., actually have almost no protein.
so-called "plant collagen", is actually some polysaccharides, after high-temperature cooking will form a sticky solution, is used as "collagen."
they're not proteins at all, they're carbohydrates.
, how did the concept of "plant collagen" come about? In the food industry, the daily chemical industry and the pharmaceutical industry, the separation of purified collagen is called gelatin.
although its nutritional value as a food is very low, but as a food additive has good performance, so it has been widely used, such as thickening, stability, glue and so on.
carbohydrates have similar functions and are known in the food industry as "food glue".
, such as carame in coral grass, can replace gelatin in food formulations, so it is also known as "plant gelatin".
it means that it comes from plants and can replace gelatin in terms of performance - and this "use performance" is only physical in nature and has nothing to do with nutritional and health benefits.
chemically, gelatin and collagen are the same.
but gelatin is notoriously additive in many people's minds, and collagen is a sacred product of "beauty bones".
, marketing experts replaced "plant gelatin" with "plant collagen" to make consumers who believe collagen "god effect" take it as a baby.
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