The Search For The Best Quality Fish Oil Supplements

You've decided to take Omega 3 supplements. You know how good they are for you, you know about the warnings over eating too much fish and you've decided the best way to get your Omega 3 fatty acids is daily capsules. But how to you find the highest quality fish oil supplements?

Omega 3 quality varies, not all supplements are high quality, so you need to spend some time comparing fish oil supplements. The following is what you look for:

1. Cleanliness and purity.

Fish can be contaminated with toxins and the FDA tell us not to eat a lot because of this. Fish oil supplements can be too and in the past some have been withdrawn. You need to know that the fishoil supplements are clean and free of toxins.

Most oil from fish that is to be used for making supplements is purified by a process called molecular distillation, and this works ok. But at least one company doesn't think this is sufficient and adds a secondary purification process to supplement molecular distillation. They also believe that they need to control the process of extracting the oil right from the moment the fish is caught and so they do so, right from the fisherman.

2. Freshness.

Fish can go off, or what is known as rancid. It is a process of oxidization and when it does it gets that noticable fishy taste and smell. And some manufacturers who have oil that isn't as fresh as it should be add masking scents to mask the smell.

3. The amount of DHA.

The most important Omega 3 fatty acid is DHA. Most Omega 3 capsules contain 18% EPA and 12% DHA, so for a 1000 mg capsule you're getting 120 mg of DHA. The rest, apart from 180 mg of EPA, isn't that important.

But the best quality Omega 3 capsules give you 28% DHA, so 280 mg per 1000 mg capsule. That's somewhere around 280 mg of DHA per 1000 mg capsule, and that's around almost 2 1/2 times  more DHA than your "average" Omega 3 supplements.

4 How effective the Omega 3 fats are.

There's a number of different factors that affect how well the Omega 3 fats work. "Bioavailability" is one. It gets a little complicated and you can find out more on my website, but basically it means how well your body takes up and assimilates the good healthy fats.

Not all fish oil brands work the same, the quality fish oil supplements do work better. The major benefits of Omega 3 fatty acids are their anti inflammatory effects. And one brand of fish oil supplements has been shown to work over twice as well as an anti inflammatory.

And of course price comes into it too, though isn't the most important factor. But you still need to do a price and value comparison which isn't easy.

So there's a relatively simple summary of the things to look for in quality fish oil supplements. Fish oil quality does matter.

I write much more extensively about this on my website and also do a price/value comparison  there as well if you're interested.

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