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
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).
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
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