Homemade Fish Scale Jelly, Organic Collagen
What is Collagen
Collagen are
naturally occurring proteins which has great tensile strength and is the
main component of fascia, cartilage, ligaments, tendon, bone and skin.
For cosmetic purposes it is responsible for skin strength and
elasticity, it typically moisturizes the skin and helps it appease
firmer and smoother. It can also be an effective treatment for
arthritis-related pain and inflammation.
Type 1 collagen
which makes up of 90% of the proteins in our body can be denatured from
fish scales where it can be consumed as a form of daily collagen
supplement. Main attributes on collagen consumptions would be it's
anti-aging effect, other effects may be bone, tendon and cartilage
replenishment.
As our body only
begin to stop producing collagen at an average age of 35 and the
earliest of 30 years old. Consumption of denatured collagen before then
would not have much contribution at all. As the name supplementary
suggest, denatured collagen usually stay in our body between 16 to 32
hours and thus requires daily consumption, this is due to it's nature of
being thermally unstable.
Why Fish Scale Collagen
Fish scales has
the highest level of extractable collagen - up to 96%, approximately 1.5
times higher than animal-derived collagen. In addition, the extraction
process for fish collagen greatly preserves it's triple-helix
structure, thus beeping polypeptides and amino acids intact. These
proteins naturally complement collagen and make the resulting treatment
more effective.
Other than
collagen, calcium phosphate and keratin can also be extracted from fish
scales. Calcium phosphate is beneficial to strengthening of bones and
teeth for preventing osteoporosis. Keratin is the key structural
component of hair, nails and the outer layer of our human skin. This
will help heal our hair resulting in a smooth and silky texture.
Because there are no preservative in homemade
Fish Scale Jelly- by Fiona Lau
Ingredient :
1 bowl fish Scales
3 bowl of water
few Pandan leaves
150 gm dried longan
150 gm red date
* Required scales with some Tapioca Starch and coarse salt to remove smell from fish scale
" Practices" :
1 ) After cleaning the fish scale, add pandan leaves into the pot and together with water bring boil.
heat
and simmer for about about few hours until the scale are completely
dissolved in the water or you also can cook with slow cooker as well.
2 ) filter the fish scale when it completely dissolve.bring to cook , add dried longan ,cook for another 30 min and leave cool and pour into a jelly mold and fridge for up to four hours or more . Ready to sever with cold only
Reminder:
1 ) You can remove the scales from the pot when you touch of a finger to confirm scale is completely dissolved.
2 ) frozen fish scale jelly recommendations are finish within seven days
No stinky smell at all
