Bone broth benefits

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Does anyone have bone broth regularly and if so what benefits have you seen?

also, what bones do you use for your broth? Thanks!

What's the benefit supposed to be? Collagen? B vitamins?

Sorry, can't help, but I'm interested so have a bump.

It's just an American term for stock. Tasty in soups & casseroles. Better than salt laden stock cubes but I don't think it has any health benefits.
I use a chicken carcass, bay leaf, carrot, celery, onion & black peppercorns.

Didn't Gwyneth Paltrow claim to have just bone broth for lunch when she was claiming to live on air and garnishes?

Salty water that sustains Gwyneth Paltrow apparently.

It's just stock, more like a consommé

People who do Ivf have bone broth. Helps with fertility 😊

I make stock regularly. It's a more natural, proteinaceous stock than using cubes or bouillon powder and cost little. It is gelatinous because of the marrow, probably.

It's a good use of chicken bones!

@JeandeServiette apparently a whole host of benefits including being good for your immune system, gut health, collagen

i've just bought liquid collagen but don't fancy shelling out £30 quid every few months if I can just make some collagen filled bone broth at home.

I'm hoping someone is going to come along and say they've been drinking/eating bone broth for the past 10 years and have never had a cold since and all their wrinkles have disappeared 😁

@Emmamoo89 interesting re fertility!

Supplements can be outrageously expensive. I have Crohns and Coeliac so I'm a captive customer. Collagen sounds like it might be worth trying to get on the cheap, though.

It’s not just stock. It’s stock that cooked slowly for a long time (12-24 hours), so extracts more from the bones. It definitely doesn’t taste like stock if you make it correctly. The advantage is the collagen which can be especially good for gut healing.

I have made it lots of times but I don’t particularly love it. I has a flavour that I definitely think is an acquired taste. You can get similar benefits from gelatine, so I sometimes make a low sugar gummy or jelly from good quality grass fed beef gelatine, which is more expensive, but nicer.

I usually used beef neck bones or sometimes various other beef bones. I just asked at a local butcher’s (like a real butcher’s not just a shop that sells meat) as they just bin them. I just asked for bones for making stock and they’d give me a massive bag of them for free.

Well, you may not appreciate this post, but I give my dogs bone broth daily.

My elderly boy has arthritis and his physio recommended it. It has certainly made a difference. He already had all the drugs. He is very chirpy and looks fabulous. So actually there is probably something in it .

Using a pressure cooker makes all the difference. It is much quicker and the seal stops the house smelling of gravy!

Oh, btw it contains apple cider vinegar which is apparently important to ‘activate it’ , if you plan on making it yourself, and the dog version is salt free.

Apple cider vinegar?? Not in mine! That would make it taste disgusting.
I think it's unlikely to help fertility or it would be prescribed on the NHS.
It's not going to do you any harm & as I said above, it's great in soup. It's just boiled bones.
Collagen is released but will be broken down into amino acids in the stomach. These amino acids are useful to build proteins but they can't go to a specific site or help skin etc. There is no research to suggest that they can.

Actually it has helped some women 😊

It tastes really nice?

I prefer to use it to make soups with steamed veg, rather than 'pollute' the flavour with overboiled plant life. Probably better for me in terms of it being recognisable ingredients with nutrients, rather than a tin of Heinz.

That's great, can you point me in the direction of the published papers? Much cheaper & easier than IVF.

I have bone broth. I make it in the instapot and add loads of vegetables. I do add stock as well though so it's probably not that healthy! It is tasty and makes me eat more veg. Can't say I've noticed any significant health benefits.

It's not on published papers. It's videos of women that documented it. They got recommended it, to do it.

During ivf process*

I make chicken stock from chicken bones. Have done for the last 36 years

I love bone broth soups (particularly chicken with ginger and a few vegetables added or beef consome) and I always feel that they are beneficial to my health although i appreciate that isn't very scientific. The old tradition of giving patients chicken soup when they are ill is I believe because of the bone broth in real chicken soups (ie. cooking the chicken carcass after having a roast dinner). I think there is a lot of truth in some of the old traditional ways even if their isn't much scientific proof to back it up and I am a scientist!

It's definitely not going to do you any harm, and it can taste lovely, but I am sceptical about alleged health benefits.

If your life is serene and organised enough that you can spend time making and drinking bone broth, that is probably why you have a feeling of well-being.