What’s the Deal with Bone Broth?

Once a niche offering sipped in trendy cafés and touted as a cure-all by wellness bloggers, bone broths can now be found sitting alongside the traditional chicken broths on supermarket shelves. But if you’re confused about what bone broth is and how it differs from plain old chicken broth, you’re not alone.

Bone broth doesn’t have a monopoly on bones. Both traditional chicken broth and stock are also made using bones. While the distinctions between stock and broth are a bit blurry, chicken broth is typically made with meat, bones, and vegetables, while stock is usually made with a higher proportion of bones and simmered longer to extract the collagen (a structural