Collagen Protein Powder

[Sonar87]

Are the collagen protein powders at least an okish alternative to try if the whey powders aren't handled well by your digestive system? With my crazy schedule need a bit of a quicker to take in, non time consuming cooking/chewing process food boost in protein around work outs. I see other things like pea and rice protein powders but they all have much lower protein g counts being plant based. But I don't really see anything other than people using the Collagen ones for trying to improve other things like skin so I'm wondering if there's something about it that it doesn't work well for for this or if it's ok but just overlooked with most people not having issues the other powers out there.

[SuffolkPunch]

Collagen is a very poor quality protein. Try anything else first IMO.

[Sonar87]

Hm ok. Out of curiosity, what exactly is meant by "poor quality" protein? Is there something wrong with how it is digested/absorbed? Something to do with the amino acids in it or ratios/amounts of them? Something else?

[SuffolkPunch]

Not all protein is the same. There is the amino acid score and bioavailability to consider.

Whey for example, scores very highly on both. Collagen has a low amino acid score by comparison

https://examine.com/nutrition/rating-proteins/

[TolerantLactose]

Collagen is not a complete protein. It's missing 5 of the common amino acids, including 1 of the essential (tryptophan).