Most people are more careful about food than ever. Reading labels, choosing whole ingredients, avoiding ultra-processed products. But collagen powders and protein supplements rarely get the same scrutiny. Most are engineered from isolated ingredients, sweetened with stevia or sucralose, and bulked out with fillers.
If you wouldn't accept that from your food, it's worth asking why you'd accept it from your supplements.
Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body. It's the structural foundation of skin, joints, bones, and the gut lining. Your body produces it naturally, but production slows with age. By 50, most people have significantly less than they did at 30.
For most of human history, people got collagen from food. Slow-cooked broths, stews made on the bone, the parts of animals we've largely stopped eating. Modern diets have almost none.
That's the gap most collagen supplements claim to fill. The question is where the collagen comes from, and how it gets into the product.
Step 1: Slow-simmered
Bones, slowly-simmered for up to 24 hours. The same process used by home cooks for generations. This extracts collagen, protein, amino acids, and minerals naturally.
Step 2: Gently dried
The broth is dried at low temperatures. No chemical extraction, no industrial processing. The nutrients stay intact.
Step 3: Blended with simple ingredients
Coffee, matcha, or cocoa. Natural flavourings. Sweetened only with coconut sugar. Nothing else added.
Most collagen powders start in a lab with isolated peptides. This one starts with ingredients you'd find in your kitchen.
Bone broth powder, Coffee, Coconut sugar
Hydrolysed collagen peptides, Sunflower oil powder, Maltodextrin, Natural flavourings, Sucralose, Steviol glycosides, Sunflower lecithin, Xanthan gum, Silicon dioxide, Citric acid, Maize starch, Guar gum, Cellulose gum, Acacia gum, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), Hyaluronic acid
Morning:
Add to your coffee, matcha, or a glass of milk. A simple start that adds collagen and protein to something you're already having.
Afternoon:
When lunch feels like a long time ago and coffee isn't quite enough. More nourishing than a snack. Takes about a minute to make.
Evening:
Warm milk, a scoop of the Chocolate blend. A gentle way to wind down that also happens to be the easiest collagen you'll have all day.
Beyond drinks:
Stir into porridge, mix with yoghurt, add to overnight oats, or blend into a smoothie. It works as part of a meal, not just as a standalone drink.
How to make it:
Enjoy as a cold shake or a hot drink. Shake it with cold milk or water, stir it into a warm drink, or heat it on the hob. It works however you prefer.
Most collagen powders are engineered from isolated peptides. Freja starts with real bone broth.
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Freja Collagen Protein Blends |
Typical collagen powders |
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Source |
Whole-food collagen from slow-simmered bone broth |
Isolated collagen peptides, industrially extracted |
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Ingredients |
As few as 3 real ingredients you can read and understand |
10-20+ including emulsifiers, sweeteners, and fillers |
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Sweetener |
Coconut sugar |
Stevia, sucralose, or artificial sweeteners |
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Flavouring |
Real coffee, matcha, or cocoa. No artificial flavourings |
Artificial or "natural" flavourings |
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Process |
Bone broth, slow-cooked then gently dried |
Chemical or enzymatic hydrolysis of raw materials |
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Taste |
Tastes like food, because it is food. No aftertaste. |
Often chalky, overly sweet, or with a lingering aftertaste |
“I've tried so many powders and supplements over the years and never stuck with any of them. This feels completely different. It's just part of what I eat now, and I don't have to think about it.”
"My digestion feels much more settled since using this regularly. It's one of the few things I've tried that actually feels gentle and easy to have every day."
"I can really see the difference in my skin, hair and nails. My joints feel better too. I like that you can actually taste the beef, it feels like real food. Only a few ingredients and nothing added in."
