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Bone broth question...

Posts: 11 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
A new place near my home popped up that serves bone broth. I've heard of it, tried to understand why people would drink it, but I kinda wanted to know if anyone out there has tried it and is it something you do often? Do you use it to replace meals or snacks?

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  • Posts: 3,997 Member
    edited December 2020
    You normally don't drink any both (beef or chicken, which are the main ones) "straight" unless you make a consumme w/it.

    Boths are generally used as a base for soups or for braised meat dishes, ususlly beef or poultry.

    Chicken broth is used in all kinds of dishes but I mainly use it to make various soups, such as lentil, split pea, cauliflower, chicken and rice and chicken gumbo among others.


    Beef both is always an ingredient used to make dishes as such beef stew, pot roast and braised oxtails, and can also be used to make hearty soups like beef & barley.
  • Posts: 11 Member
    Lemurcat and headkayce, thank you. I do remember consomme as a kid, and I have always loved sipping broths instead of having noodles and small pieces of veg or meat in it.. thank you for the kinks you both provided. I'm going to check them out. And Snowflake, yes, there is such thing as leaky gut.
  • Posts: 11 Member
    janejellyroll -- thank you for the heads up on that website. I appreciate it!
  • Posts: 8,578 Member

    I've seen small containers selling for $7-9 in my city. Absolutely ridiculous.

    PT Barnum would be proud. :D
  • Posts: 7,887 Member
    It's just broth. I use it as a base for soups and stews, just like I always have. It's yummy.

    What makes me laugh is what some stores are charging for their store-made 'Bone Broth' just because it's the latest caboose on the woo-woo train.

    This drives me crazy too.
  • Posts: 1,580 Member
    But but it’s MAGIC!!! I thought I could use it to grow a bean stalk? That won’t work?!?!
    I would like a refund! 😂😂😂😂
  • Posts: 8,578 Member

    I've seen small containers selling for $7-9 in my city. Absolutely ridiculous.

    Add "Organic" to the label and you can double that. ;)
  • Posts: 1,580 Member
    And the piece de resistance?

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    Yup. Let that sink in. :D


    Wait what?!?! How is bone broth VEGAN?!?! I’m so confused right now 😂😂😂
  • Posts: 66 Member
    My wife makes bone broth every week. I do believe there are health benefits but yes they are likely overblown. Buying pre-made bone broth at stores or restaurants is likely really expensive. My wife will buy cheap bones from the market and use the instant pot to make it into broth.

    I'll drink a cup of bone broth every other day or so. I don't drink it for its health benefits - I drink it because it tastes so damn good!!!!

  • Posts: 3,307 Member
    edited December 2020
    And the piece de resistance?

    n8l6q4g5s8ym.jpg

    Yup. Let that sink in. :D


    My daughter is vegetarian. I've looked at some of these recipes. I believe they are more geared toward collagen production. That's allegedly why bone broth is supposed to be good for you. It has lots of glycine in it. But that's where the science gets suspect on bone broth. Even though glycine is a building block of collagen, the science of whether or not eating collagen makes more collagen is iffy.

    The vegan versions concentrate on other things known (and in some cases more scientific) in helping to either improve gut health or make collagen. The Sunwarrior new "Collagen" mix has Horsetail extract in it. Though I don't think that's the best source of absorbable silica, it has silica (or silicon) in it. Eating absorbably silicon is THE best way to help your own body make collagen. BioSil, Green Beans, some mineral waters, Bamboo Extracts and non-alcholic beer are the best sources of this. I try to eat Green Beans once a week. Fantastic for building collagen.

    Changing the makeup of the human microbiome quickly is extremely challenging. One of the very few things that scientists have found that improves it quickly is seaweed (like Fucoidon, which is a brown seaweed derivative). Some of these "vegan broths" have seaweed.

    I guess what I'm saying is there's likely more science behind some of the "vegan broths" or at least as much as actual bone broth.
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