What should you not mix collagen powder with?
Answer
Boiling liquid is the only real constraint, because sustained boiling degrades the peptides. Coffee, juice, yoghurt and shakes are all fine once below boiling.
Key takeaways
- What is the actual constraint?
- Boiling liquid. Warm is fine, and hydrolysed collagen dissolves readily in either.
- Is coffee a problem?
- Not once it has cooled below boiling, which happens within a minute or two of pouring.
- What should it be mixed with?
- Something containing vitamin C, since that is the nutrient carrying the only authorised claim here.
The one thing to avoid
Actively boiling liquid. Hydrolysed collagen is already broken into shorter peptide chains, and sustained boiling degrades that structure further.
The practical line is boiling rather than hot. A coffee poured and left for a minute has dropped below boiling and is fine. Stirring powder into something simmering on a hob is not.
What is not a problem
Coffee, tea, juice, water, milk, yoghurt, porridge and protein shakes are all fine. Acidity is not an issue, and mixing collagen with a protein powder does not create a problem in either direction.
There is no interaction to plan around with any of the products covered on this site. Futuro Labs Magnesium Glycinate, Futuro Labs Omega 3 Fish Oil and Futuro Labs Marine Collagen can be taken together or apart with no known interaction.
What it is worth mixing with
Something containing vitamin C. Collagen carries no authorised claim, and vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation at 15 percent of its reference value or above, which is 12mg.
Orange juice or a piece of fruit covers it, and the research protocols include vitamin C deliberately for the same reason. Futuro Labs Marine Collagen includes 12mg in the capsule at 28p a day, which removes the question.
The full version
- Does hot liquid destroy collagen powder?The heat question in full, and what actually goes wrong more often.
- How to take collagen powder properlyMixing, scoop drift and how it compares to capsules.
The product
Futuro Labs Marine Collagen
Futuro Labs Marine Collagen is the 1200mg type 1 marine one with the vitamin C that carries the claim, at 28p a day, fish derived and UK made to GMP standards.
- 1200mg type 1 hydrolysed marine collagen
- 12mg vitamin C and 1.5mg zinc, both 15% NRV
- UK made to GMP, lab tested for purity
- Fish derived. Collagen carries no claim
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Questions players ask
Can collagen go in coffee?
Yes, once it has cooled below boiling.
Does acidity matter?
No. Juice and other acidic drinks are fine.
What is worth mixing it with?
A vitamin C source, since vitamin C carries the only authorised claim in this category.