http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s04cu.html
I googled gelatin composition and got info for some made with aspartame, but the part I find interesting is the break-down of amino acids in a 9 gm serving; Adelle Davis said somewhere that gelatin was mostly glycine but while that is the largest amino acid ingredient there are portions of other amino acids- Threonine 96 mg Isoleucine 75.3 mg Lysine 225 mg Methionine 39.5 mg Cystine 0.0 mg Phenylalanine 113 mg Tyrosine 19.7 mg Valine 135 mg Arginine 431 mg Histidine 43 mg Alanine 521 mg Aspartic acid 343 mg Glutamic acid 569 mg Glycine 1239 mg Proline 800 mg Serine 170 mg and minerals: Calcium .2 mg Iron 0.0 mg Magnesium 0.1 mg Phosphorus 0.0 mg Potassium 179 mg Sodium 248 mg Zinc 0.0 mg Copper 0.1 mg Manganese 0.0 mg Selenium 2.3 mcg Note there is almost no calcium that someone said is the ingredient in gelatin that builds nails. Perhaps taking the major amino acids in powder form would also build the nails and cartilage in the body, or taking brewer's yeast, which contains lots of amino acids, but not in the same proportions, would do as well, if one wanted to avoid gelatin because of the BSE issue. I've been taking beef gelatin as a cartilage and nail builder but don't want to continue to do that, so want to find alternatives. I've had improvement in my fingernails from taking colloidal minerals for trace minerals and chelated multi-minerals for the mega minerals and transporters. Nancy -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
