No. Collagen comes from animals; Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides is bovine hide. None of the four “vegan collagen” supplements we checked is sold as containing collagen. Each is a mix of nutrients and plant extracts sold to support the collagen your body makes. If you want one, our pick is Codeage’s, because its label says so.
The label detail that settles it is on the product names. PlantFusion sells its plant powder as “Complete Plant Collagen Builder – Vegan Collagen Peptides”. Codeage, selling much the same idea, says its builder “does not contain collagen itself”. Future Kind’s page opens with “Your own collagen is the best collagen”. Of those three, only PlantFusion puts “collagen peptides” on a tub with no collagen in it. Real animal-free collagen does exist: Evonik makes one by fermentation, but it launched it in 2024 for the beauty and personal care market, for creams rather than capsules, and we found no supplement built on it. If what you actually want is more protein, a collagen builder is not that product; our roundup of vegan protein powders ranks those on lead.
Where collagen comes from
Collagen is a structural protein in animal connective tissue, and commercial collagen is extracted from animal hides, bones and fish skin. The peptides in a standard tub are that protein broken into shorter chains. There is no plant that makes it, which is why every vegan product below is sold to support the body’s own production instead.
That is where vitamin C comes in. NIH says vitamin C is required for the biosynthesis of collagen, and that line is the one solid fact under most “builder” formulas. The adult RDA is 90 mg a day for men and 75 mg for women, 35 mg more for smokers, with an upper limit of 2,000 mg. Whether a builder makes a non-deficient person produce more collagen is a different question, and nothing we read for this article answers it.
Six products, read from the label
Each one checked on the maker’s own page in October 2026. Prices change; per-serving figures are our arithmetic.
| Product | Contains collagen? | Vegan, per the maker | What’s in it | Price on the maker’s site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codeage Amen Vegan Collagen Builder+ | No, says so | Yes | Vitamin C, biotin, amino acid blend, silica, plant extracts | $24.99 for 30 capsules |
| Garden of Life Organic Plant Collagen Builder | No | Vegan logo | Biotin 2,500 mcg, silica 10 mg, plant antioxidants | $29.59 for 60 tablets |
| Future Kind Vegan Collagen Booster | No | 100% vegan | 16 nutrients incl. silica, biotin, zinc, vitamins A and E, amla | $29 for 30 servings |
| PlantFusion Complete Plant Collagen Builder | No, despite “collagen peptides” in the name | Yes | Saberry fruit extract, amino acids, white tea extract | $45.97 for 12 servings at list |
| Deva Vegan Vitamin C, multi source | No | Vegan Society registered | 250 mg vitamin C from amla, acerola, camu camu, rose hips and ascorbic acid | Not listed |
| Vital Proteins Original Collagen Peptides | Yes | No: bovine hide | Collagen peptides | $27.00 for 14 servings |
Codeage Amen Vegan Collagen Builder+
Our pick, mostly for honesty. The page says outright that the product “does not contain collagen itself,” calls it a vegan supplement, and lists ascorbic acid (vitamin C), biotin, an amino acid blend of leucine, isoleucine, valine, lysine and proline, grape seed extract, silica, lutein from marigolds, and a list of fruit and vegetable powders. It is one capsule a day, 30 to a bottle, for $24.99, about 83 cents a day (our arithmetic). The panel itself is an image on Codeage’s page, so the vitamin C amount isn’t in the text we could read; check it on the bottle against NIH’s 75 to 90 mg RDA.
Garden of Life Organic Plant Collagen Builder
The page carries a vegan certification logo along with USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified marks, and calls it a vegan collagen booster made only from organic plant foods. The figures it gives are 2,500 mcg of biotin from sesbania and 10 mg of silica from bamboo. It lists no vitamin C, which is the one ingredient here with an NIH line behind it. Sixty tablets cost $29.59, which Garden of Life puts at 49 cents a serving. Skip it if you bought a builder for the vitamin C.
Future Kind Vegan Collagen Booster
Future Kind is the maker most candid about what a booster is: the page’s first line is “Your own collagen is the best collagen”. It packs 16 nutrients, including silica, biotin, grape seed extract, zinc, vitamins A and E and amla, into two capsules a day, says it contains no animal derivatives, and calls itself 100% vegan. Thirty servings cost $29, about 97 cents a day (our arithmetic). If you already take a multivitamin with zinc and vitamins A and E, add the two labels together before you buy this.
PlantFusion Complete Plant Collagen Builder
The product we would not buy on its name alone. PlantFusion’s title calls it “Vegan Collagen Peptides”, while the copy underneath says the formula “builds, protects and hydrates your own collagen” with Saberry fruit extract, amino acids and white tea extract. It also promises “results you can see and feel in as little as three weeks”, which nothing we read for this article supports. Twelve servings list at $45.97, about $3.83 a serving and the most per serving of the prices we found (our arithmetic), though it was on sale for $32.18 when we looked.
Deva Vegan Vitamin C, multi source
What to buy instead of a builder, if the vitamin C is the part you care about. One tablet gives 250 mg of vitamin C from amla, acerola, camu camu, rose hips and ascorbic acid, plus 100 mg of calcium, and Deva says all its products are registered with the Vegan Society. That is roughly three times the adult RDA and far under the 2,000 mg upper limit. Deva lists no price on its own site. If you eat fruit and vegetables daily, check whether you need it at all.
Vital Proteins Original Collagen Peptides
Not vegan. Vital Proteins describes it as “one single ingredient from upcycled bovine hide”. It makes no vegan or vegetarian claim, and the 9.33 oz tub of 14 servings costs $27.00. It is here as the comparison, and because “upcycled” on the front does not change where the hide came from.
How to read a “vegan collagen” label
Look for the word collagen in the ingredient list, not the product name. Codeage says outright that its builder contains none, and the other three vegan builders here describe themselves as supporting your own collagen. If a tub does list collagen or collagen peptides as an ingredient, ask the maker what it was made from; the only animal-free collagen we found is a skin care ingredient.
Then find the vitamin C line, because that is the only ingredient in these formulas with an NIH statement tying it to collagen. Biotin and silica may be on the label for good reasons, but nothing we read for this article ties them to collagen production. For the bigger question of which supplements a vegan actually needs, our guide to supplements on a vegan diet is where to start.
Sources
- Vital Proteins, Original Collagen Peptides
- Codeage, Amen Vegan Collagen Builder+
- Garden of Life, Organic Plant Collagen Builder, 60 tablets
- Future Kind, Vegan Collagen Booster Supplement
- PlantFusion, Complete Plant Collagen Builder
- Evonik, Evonik launches biotech-based vegan collagen ingredient for the beauty and personal care market (February 2024)
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Vitamin C fact sheet for health professionals
- Deva, Vegan Vitamin C, multi source
