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- Path: sparky!uunet!tpm-sprl!jbh
- From: jbh@anat.UMSMED.EDU (James B. Hutchins)
- Subject: Re: origin of gelatin
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.231459.8570@anat.UMSMED.EDU>
- Summary: Where there's collagen...
- Keywords: There's always more room for Jello!
- Organization: Dept. of Anatomy, Univ. Mississippi Medical Center
- References: <KH.92Jul30110853@litsun17.epfl.ch>
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:14:59 GMT
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- In article <KH.92Jul30110853@litsun17.epfl.ch> kh@litsun.epfl.ch writes:
- >Does anybody know what the origin of gelatin (foodstuff) is?
- >
- >Opinions on red.food.cooking range from hooves to skin to cow bones.
- >Animal matter anyway. Is pectin the same, or something different?
- >...
-
-
- Gelatin comes from all (or any) of the sources you name. Anything that
- contains the protein collagen (that is, most all connective tissue) can
- be made into gelatin.
-
- Pectin, on the other hand, is only found in plants, so only plants with
- hooves make gelatin :-)
-
- Jim
-
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