Collagen products trigger the "face value economy"

Collagen is the most abundant and widely distributed protein in the human body, accounting for about 25% to 33% of the total human body protein.

Due to the relatively large molecular weight of collagen, it is not easy to be absorbed and utilized by the human body.

In recent years, the "appearance economy" and "health economy" have shown a trend of younger consumption, and functional foods with collagen peptides as the main product that have the effect of beauty and skin have gradually become the new favorite in the market

Are Collagen Products an "IQ Tax"?

For a long time, people on the Internet have spread a wrong concept of nutrition: after all proteins enter the human body, they will be digested and decomposed, and eventually absorbed by the human body in the form of amino acids, and collagen peptides lack tryptophan, an essential amino acid, Therefore, collagen peptide products have no special nutritional value, and it is better to eat one more egg to supplement nutrition

In fact, most proteins have peptide sequences containing biological activity.

Collagen peptides have the nutritional effect of supplementing human amino acids and the health effects of biologically active polypeptides

How to choose the right collagen?

There are at least 30 different collagens in the human body, of which the most widely distributed are type I collagen, type II collagen, and type III collagen

There are two types of collagen in the market: bovine collagen and marine collagen

The selection of collagen products should also take into account the molecular weight of the functional components, and fish collagen peptides generally have smaller molecular weights

Collagen food is promising

As consumers pay more and more attention to beauty and health, the market development of collagen products is also showing rapid growth

In order to attract the attention of more young consumer groups, more and more collagen products are breaking through the restrictions of consumption scenarios, and the forms of oral collagen products are gradually becoming more diverse

Collagen raw materials are mostly animal by-products such as fish scales, fish skins, pig skins, and beef bones, which come from a wide range of sources

In June 2018, the National Health and Health Commission officially issued the "GB31645-2018 National Standard for Food Safety Collagen Peptides", and the entire collagen industry was regulated

　　(Wang Yansheng and Zhang Xiaochen)

　　Responsible editor: Zhao Yu Review: Wang Jinchen