| Vegan? Maybe | Vegetarian? Maybe |
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 peptide may be vegan depending on the source and may be vegetarian depending on the source.
Peptide is a generic term for a short chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds. You can think of a peptide as somewhere between an amino acid and a protein. Peptides may be extracted from cows, milk, fish, or synthesized.