Types & Ingredients
What's actually in a jelly stick — collagen sources, doses, and how the six products we track compare.
The labels say milligrams; the trials used grams. Here's a plain comparison of what UK collagen products deliver against the doses that were actually studied — and why the meta-analyses say more isn't better.
Nearly every collagen supplement sold in the UK says 'hydrolysed' on the pack. Here's what that actually means — and why the word matters more than the marketing around it.
The collagen itself is usually animal-derived, but the jelly texture isn't gelatine — checked against the real ingredient panel for all six UK-available sticks we track.
A newer wave of jelly sticks uses PDRN, an ingredient with real clinical research behind it — but that research is about injections, not eating it. Here's the honest gap.
Six real jelly sticks, reviewed head to head — who each one actually suits, and where the price-per-stick maths gets uncomfortable.
Marine, bovine, and vegan collagen; pomegranate and Centella; the doses across six real UK-available sticks — what's genuinely in the pouch.
Bovine and marine collagen rule out vegetarians and vegans alike. Here are the genuine plant-based jelly sticks we could verify, with real pricing.
A straight comparison of the three main collagen formats on convenience, taste, dosing, and price per serving — no format is objectively 'best'.
The soft-pouch supplement format that's huge in Korea and almost unknown in the UK — what's actually inside one, and how people eat them.