Tagged with 'collagen'

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This filling and refreshing kale salad delivers a satisfying burst of flavor and nutrients. And even more exciting, if you like to make your own salad dressing, which is much healthier and less expensive by the way, add an extra nutrient boost from collagen.

Ingredients

1 bunch kale (squeeze ½ lemon over torn kale pieces and massage in a bowl for 2 minutes)

½ to 1 cup shredded carrots

Sea salt and black pepper to taste

¼ cup shaved parmesan cheese (optional)

1 tablespoon avocado oil

½ block baked tofu, cut into small pieces

½ cup canned chickpeas or Great Northern beans, drained and rinsed

Collagen Tahini Dressing

2 to 3 tablespoons organic tahini, stirred; This JEM cashew curry tahini would be amazing too.

Juice of ½ lemon

1 teaspoon raw honey

Pinch each sea salt and black pepper

1 scoop NeoCell Super Collagen Powder  

Directions

1. Place kale in a salad bowl. Add carrots, salt, pepper and parmesan cheese.

2. In a skillet, heat avocado oil over medium-high heat. Add tofu pieces and sauté until crispy. Add beans and heat 1-2 minutes. Add tofu and beans to salad and top with homemade croutons (see recipe below).

3. Combine dressing ingredients in a bowl. Whisk in a little water until dressing thins to desired consistency.

Homemade Croutons

Preheat over to 350^o. Cut day-old bread into pieces; drizzle with EVOO and toss with 1 clove minced garlic, salt and pepper. Spread on baking sheet. Bake 10-15 minutes or until crispy. 

Recipe courtesy of delicious living & NeoCell

For those times you want something tasty and fresh, something sophisticated but also something healthy. This cocktail delivers on all counts. If you’re into juicing or have wanted to give it a try, this Juiced-Up Cocktail could be just the thing for that special afternoon pick-me-u. Can you say “Happy Hour”?

JUICED-UP COCKTAIL featuring NEOCELL

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS 

½ raw organic red beet, scrubbed, trimmed and unpeeled

3 small or 1 large organic carrot, scrubbed, trimmed and unpeeled

1 medium organic unpeeled lime, washed

1 large organic unpeeled orange, washed

1 medium organic unpeeled apple, washed

1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled

¼ cup fresh wheatgrass or 1 ounce wheatgrass juice

1 generous handful organic parsley, washed

2 scoops NeoCell Super Collagen

2 tablespoons raw organic agave nectar

Ice

DIRECTIONS

1. Using a high-powered juicer, juice the beet, carrot, lime, orange, apple, ginger, wheatgrass and parsley.

2. Whisk NeoCell Super Collagen and agave into the juice until completely dissolved. If you’re using purchased pre-juiced wheatgrass, add it here instead of Step 1.

3. Fill two glasses with ice and pour juice through a fine-mesh strainer into glasses. If desired, garnish with citrus peel and more parsley.

Recipe courtesy of delicious living and NeoCell

Don’t pigeon-hole your breakfast! This innovative, healthy take on the morning classic is positively divine (and nutritious). You'll never taste the collagen, but you'll get the effects of strengthening, hydrating and protecting your skin. That's a great way to start the day!

Waffle Ingredients

Serves 1

1 large apple (finely chopped in a food processor) or ¾ cup chunky applesauce

3 tablespoons cassava flour or oat flour

1 tablespoon ground flaxseed

2 large eggs

½ tablespoon ground cinnamon

Honey Almond Butter Collagen Syrup

1 scoop NeoCell Collagen Powder

½ tablespoon honey

1½ tablespoons almond butter

1 tablespoon non-dairy milk

Directions

1. Heat waffle iron. In a bowl, combine chopped apple (or applesauce), flour, flaxseed, eggs and cinnamon; blend with a whisk.

2. Spray surface of waffle iron with nonstick spray. Add batter to waffle iron and cook according to appliance directions.

3. Meanwhile, whisk together syrup ingredients in a bowl. Drizzle syrup over warm waffle and enjoy!

Easy, delicious and packed with loads of exotic flavor and vitality-boosting collagen. The health of your skin, hair and nails can benefit greatly from collagen. 

Ingredients

2 tilapia fillets, cut in half lengthwise

¼ cup ground flaxseed meal

2 eggs, whisked

1 teaspoon NeoCell Collagen Powder

½ cup cooked quinoa, cooled

2 tablespoons coconut oil

Salt and pepper, to taste

Small corn tortillas

½ avocado, peeled and sliced

Fresh sprouts

Mango Salsa

1/3 cup diced mango

1/3 cup chopped cherry tomatoes

1 diced shallot

¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro

Juice of ½ lemon

Salt and pepper

Directions

1. Place flaxseed meal in a bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs and NeoCell Collagen Powder. Place cooked (room temperature) quinoa in a third bowl. Dip both sides of tilapia fillets in flaxseed. Next, dip them quickly into egg mixture, letting excess drip off. Then dip tilapia in the quinoa. Press quinoa into the tilapia.

2. In a skillet over medium-high heat, heat coconut oil until liquid and hot. Cook tilapia until cooked through and browned and crispy on the outside, about 4 minutes per side. Season tilapia with salt and pepper.

3. While the tilapia cooks, in a bowl combine Mango Salsa ingredients.

4. Serve cooked tilapia in corn tortillas; top with Mango Salsa, sliced avocado and fresh sprouts.

Recipe courtesy of delicious living and NeoCell.

This green smoothie is simple yet tasty, and packed with protein and nutritious greens. It’s also boosted with NeoCell Derma Matrix Collagen Skin Complex, which is personally my favorite NeoCell product, and has so many benefits.

Ingredients

Serves 2

1 large handful spinach

1 fresh or frozen banana, peeled

6 to 8 fresh or frozen strawberries

2 tablespoons chia seeds

1 tablespoon green powder

8 to 12 ounces non-dairy milk

2 tablespoons Greek yogurt (optional)

2 scoops NeoCell Derma Matrix Collagen Skin Complex

Directions

Peel and cut bananas. Wash and cut strawberries if fresh. Place all ingredients in a high-speed blender. Blend until creamy and serve immediately. Add more liquid, if necessary, until smoothie reaches desired consistency. 

Enjoy!

You can’t see collagen, but it’s the essence of healthy skin, joints, and bones — it’s like the glue that holds us together. It's a protein, but no ordinary protein! Unfortunately, the body's natural collagen production typically slows at a rate of 1.5% per year after the age of 25. You can only guess what this decline in collagen does to us. Yep, you got it — wrinkles, tendon injuries, and joint pain.

NeoCell is the originator and industry authority on collagen health. 

Collagen Benefits

Every system in our body (except the nervous system) needs healthy collagen, and it provides the strength and resilience typically associated with youth, beauty, and wellness.  

#1: Improves Joint and Bone Health

When we lose collagen, our tendons and ligaments start moving with less ease, leading to stiffness, swollen joints and more.

Collagen’s gel-like, smooth structure covers and holds our bones together, allowing us to move without pain. Ingesting collagen is like greasing a creaky door hinge—it helps your joints move more easily, reduces pain often associated with aging and even reduces the risk of joint deterioration.

#2: Builds and Maintains a Healthy Gut Barrier and Supports Good Digestion

Collagen helps break down proteins and soothes your gut’s lining, healing damaged cell walls and infusing it with healing amino acids.

#3: Supports Skin Health in several ways

Increasing collagen levels can help your skin look firmer, increase smoothness, and help your skin cells keep renewing and repairing normally.

A study looking at the anti-aging properties of collagen found when women aged 35-55 took 2.5-5 grams of collagen hydrolysate daily for eight weeks, they saw a significant improvement in skin elasticity, skin moisture, and skin roughness, all with little to no side effects.

Collagen also reduces cellulite and stretch marks. If you’ve noticed more visible cellulite as you’ve gotten older, it’s not your imagination. It’s due to skin losing its elasticity because of decreased collagen, which makes cellulite more evident. Improving skin’s elasticity through collagen helps reduce that dimpling on your skin.

#4: Supports the Growth of Hair and Nails

Collagen might be to blame for peeling and splitting nails, so adding collagen into your diet regimen can help keep your nails strong and possibly reverse signs of hair loss.

#5: Detoxification

Collagen is extremely helpful for detoxing your body of harmful substances and improving blood flow. When the liver absorbs harmful substances, toxins, or alcohol that shouldn’t be passing through it, glycine helps minimize damage caused to the liver.

How To Take Collagen

Collagen peptides are easy to add to your daily routine. If you prefer collagen in powdered form, it’s flavorless, dissolves quickly, and will not gelatinize – perfect for stirring or blending into your warm or cold beverage of choice (ie: smoothie, water, coffee, broth). 

If you would rather go the supplement route, NeoCell has a variety of collagen options that are super easy to take.

Strengthen, Hydrate, and Protect your skin from within with collagen by NeoCell.

Kelly Harrington, MS, RDN

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist for Healthy Goods

References:

1. Proksch E. Oral supplementation of specific collagen peptides has beneficial effects on human skin physiology: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Skin Pharmacol Physiol. 2014;27(1):47-55.

2. Clark KL et al. 24-week study on the use of collagen hydrolysate as a dietary supplement in athletes with activity-related joint pain. Curr Med Res Opin. 2008 May;24(5):1485-96. 

3. Bruyere O. Effect of collagen hydrolysate in articular pain: a 6-month randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study. Complement Ther Med. 2012 Jun;20(3):124-30.