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Gelatin 600 mg
21st Century
4.6
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(8006 ratings)
Gelatin 600 mg
Score 25.0
21st Century Gelatin provides a minimal 600mg dose, which is likely insufficient for meaningful benefits for joint, skin, hair, and nail health, despite its very low price per serving. Higher doses are generally required to see noticeable effects.
Quantity: 100 Capsule(s)Servings size: 1 Capsule(s) (100 servings)
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Joint Health
Skin Health
Hair Health
Nail Health
leaderboard Score 25.0
21st Century Gelatin provides a minimal 600mg dose, which is likely insufficient for meaningful benefits for joint, skin, hair, and nail health, despite its very low price per serving. Higher doses are generally required to see noticeable effects.
This product offers a very low dose of 600mg of gelatin per serving. While gelatin is a source of amino acids beneficial for collagen structures, this dosage is significantly below the amounts typically studied and recommended by nutritionists for noticeable effects on joint, skin, hair, or nail health. For context, many collagen supplements provide 2.5g to 15g per serving. Although the price per serving appears very low, achieving a therapeutically effective dose would require consuming multiple capsules, thereby negating the apparent cost efficiency and potentially leading to inconveniently high daily pill counts.
- Extremely low price per individual serving.
- Simple ingredient list, only gelatin.
- High number of servings per bottle.
- Severely underdosed for therapeutic effects (600mg vs 2.5g-15g recommended).
- Requires taking many capsules daily to reach an effective dose, reducing convenience.
- Unlikely to provide significant benefits for stated goals due to low potency.
- Users may be misled by the low price per serving into thinking it's an effective supplement without realizing the very low dose per capsule.
- May lead to disappointment as desired health benefits are unlikely to be achieved with the recommended serving size.
$5.37($0.05 per serving)
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| Ingredient | Amount per serving |
|---|---|
| Gelatin | 600 mg |
Categories
Gelatin 30.0
As a gelatin product, it contains the stated ingredient. However, its extremely low dosage per capsule makes it a very poor performer within the gelatin collection category, as it fails to provide a therapeutically relevant amount of the active compound, making it an inefficient choice for consumers seeking benefits from gelatin.
Goals
Skin Health 25.0
For skin health improvements such as elasticity and hydration, research commonly suggests collagen peptide doses starting from 2.5 grams. This 600mg dosage is unlikely to stimulate collagen synthesis sufficiently for visible skin benefits.
Nail Health 25.0
While gelatin can benefit nails, a 600mg dose is simply too low to effectively strengthen brittle nails or promote healthy nail growth. Users would likely need to consume an impractical number of capsules daily to achieve any tangible results.
Joint Health 20.0
The 600mg dose is far too low to provide any significant support for joint health. Clinical studies and nutritionist recommendations for collagen/gelatin to support joints typically involve doses of 5 grams or more daily for noticeable effects on cartilage and flexibility.
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