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Gelatin
Gelatin
Gelatin
What is it:
Gelatin is often used as a thickening agent or adhesive for foods like jellies, desserts, and candy. It is created from dehydrating parts of an animal like skin, bones, and tissue. It is a degraded form of collagen and provides the body with important amino acids such as Glycine and Proline. The best way to naturally consume gelatin is with bone broth. You can also purchase gelatin powder and use it in recipes.
Rating:
Gelatin has many health benefits and delivers essential amino acids. It can help with gut health and digestion, joint pain, improve sleep quality, maintain heart health, and increase cognitive ability, among other benefits. As with any animal product, the health of the animal affects the health of the food. Purchasing gelatin from animals that were grass-fed, pasture-raised, and organic can help limit exposure to GMOs and pesticides.
Resources:
- Gelatin may reduce inflammation in the digestive tract (in vitro study)
- Collagen may lower inflammation and help with osteoarthritis (randomized controlled trial)
- Glycine improves sleep quality (randomized blinded crossover trial)
- Collagen may help with joint pain (prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study)
How we rate ingredients
Health is like a bank account, certain ingredients make a deposit into your health bank, meaning they add to
your health. Certain ingredients withdraw from your health bank. We want health promoting ingredients in our diet. To keep things simple, we rate ingredients on a green, yellow, red scale:
Clean
It is naturally occurring in food and has no harmful effects on the body. It is real food. It is health promoting.
Caution
It goes into one or more of the below categories
- It is not naturally occurring in food but doesn’t have data showing it has a harmful effect on the body (additives like Gellan Gum)
- It is naturally occurring but can have some harmful effects on the body (added sugars, oils, gums etc.)
We Avoid
It is known to have a harmful effect on the body (ex. All food colorings, Natural Flavors, MSG, Potassium bromate, aspartame, artificial flavors)
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