Fish Oil

Discussion in 'Anything and Everything about dietary supplements' started by lilolr, Feb 18, 2004.

  1. lilolr

    lilolr New Member

    I have been reading about people taking fish oil because of the Omega 3. I was wondering what a good product was. Thanks in advance

    Ryan
     
    lilolr, Feb 18, 2004
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  2. imported_diznik

    imported_diznik Guest

    I get mine in capsules at Target. I know it sounds strange to say go buy your supplements at Target, BUT fish oil is about 60% cheaper there than at GNC (its about 10 bucks for 200 capsules).
     
    imported_diznik, Feb 19, 2004
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  3. babucher

    babucher New Member

    Here's info to get you started:

    http://www.qualitycounts.com/fpfattyacids.html

    http://www.drumlib.com/supp/prod/fish-oil_01.htm

    Highest quality would probably be PBL PureOmega3, with the cheapest price for it at 1fast400.com. The stats are 430/230 for 1000mg, but the caps are 1200mg giving 516/276 per cap.
    http://www9.netrition.com/pbl_pure_omega3_page.html

    The SuperEPA from Puritan's Pride is higher-than-normal quality as well (300/200) and quite a bit cheaper if you do the "buy 1 get 1 free" or "buy 2 get 3 free"
    http://tinyurl.com/28xjv

    Twinlab's Mega Twin EPA has the highest % of EPA+DHA, but also has cholesterol, which is supposed to be a good indicator that molecular distillation (which removes the heavy metals) wasn't used for purification.
    vitacost.com or http://store.yahoo.com/iherb/twinepa.html

    I'll post the data from my spreadsheet, but not sure if the formatting will come out right. Any corrections or price updates are always appreciated.

    Brian

    brand  where  EPA  DHA  cap size  %epa  %dha  caps  cost  T-EPA  T-DHA  total  $/g  chol  PCBs

    PureOmega3  1fast400  516  276  1200  0.43  0.23  100  24.99  51600  27600  79200  0.32  0  0

    PuritP SuperEPA  PuritansPride  300  200  1000  0.3  0.2  180  13.5  54000  36000  90000  0.15  0  0

    PuritP SuperEPA  PuritansPride  300  200  1000  0.3  0.2  450  27  135000  90000  225000  0.12  0  0

    Twinlab mega twin EPA  vitacost.com  600  240  1000  0.6  0.24  60  15.93  36000  14400  50400  0.32  12  

    Twinlab mega twin EPA  http://store.yahoo.com/iherb/twinepa.html  601  241  1000  0.6  0.24  61  16  36661  14701  51362  0.31  12  

    OmegaRX (224ml)  zonelabsinc.com  1800  900        45  62.5  81000  40500  121500  0.51
     
    babucher, Feb 19, 2004
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  4. ZMT

    ZMT New Member

    ZMT, Feb 21, 2004
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  5. imported_ejones

    imported_ejones Guest

    how about optimum nutrition's fish oilfish oil
     
    imported_ejones, Feb 21, 2004
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  6. lilolr

    lilolr New Member

    Thanks for the responses. I went with the Optimum Nutrition fish oil.
     
    lilolr, Feb 28, 2004
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  7. babucher

    babucher New Member

    Just as a further note, Puritan's Pride is having a 'buy 1 get 2 free' sale, which applies to their SuperEPA product among others.
    http://tinyurl.com/2szxz

    I haven't figured shipping in, but ignoring shipping it comes out to be $0.10 / gram EPA+DHA, which is the cheapest 'higher-quality' capped product I've seen.

    higher-quality being anything more than the normal 180/120 mix.

    Hope this helps,
    Brian
     
    babucher, Feb 28, 2004
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