| Vegan? No | Vegetarian? No |
Classifications are made based on the available commercial supply of the ingredient, and are made based on the criteria on our classifications page.
Commercially available elastin is not vegan or vegetarian.
Elastin is a protein present in connective tissue in animals. It is currently commercially extracted from animal tissue.
Sources
- Xiong, J., Liu, L., Yu, W., Li, M., Zhou, L., Dai, L., Ning, N., Liang, X., & Ye, X. (2025). Efficiently scaled-up production of recombinant human elastin-like polypeptides using multiple optimization strategies. Journal of Biotechnology, 401, 32–47.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2025.02.010