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So. umm…. feeling a bit like a dumbshit, bought high potency ethyl ester fish oil thinking it was a bigger bang for my buck a couple weeks ago, thinking after looking at a few articles that that was a terrible idea considering we're on a high fat diet… Any cheap formulas out there that are actual triglycerides? Every brand I find that consists of the filtered triglycerides is ridiculously high.
Considering getting flameout by biotest, btw… need a brand that actually does the work. No bullshit.
carlson's or NOW foods ultra omega 3 are both great and decently cheap.
Thank you... extremely pissed at Vitamin World right now... I want my refund haha
carlson's or NOW foods ultra omega 3 are both great and decently cheap.
+1Taste on the Carlson's is decent too. If I didn't know it was fish oil I wouldn't know it was fish oil...lol.
carlson's or NOW foods ultra omega 3 are both great and decently cheap.
+1 on the NOW Foods fish oils. I've got some and they're pretty good for the amount of red meat I usually eat.
+1 on the NOW fish oil. I found allstarhealth.com to be the cheapest…flat shipping rate too which is nice
I used to use the NOW Ultra Omega-3, but taking 7 pills to try to get to the desired 5g total of EPA+DHA got to be pain. Not to mention it comes out way more expensive this way.I switched to Carlson's liquid and it made life a LOT simpler. 1T at night before bed and I'm done (3.9g of EPA+DHA). Taste is also a non-issue with the lemon as it goes down just fine. However...I am now using Vitamin Shoppe's branded liquid Omega 3 product. at $9/bottle cheaper than Carlson's I could not be happier. Label profile is IDENTICAL to Carlson's and so is the taste. In speaking with the local store manager, he says that many of their products come from the big-name manufacturers and are rebranded through licensing agreements to the benefit of both companies. I have little doubt Carlson's makes this product in this manner. Even if not, so what. They are literally indistinguishable from each other once out of the bottle.
the big difference is that Carlson's is 3rd party tested and bottled in Norway. Vitamin Shoppe brand is not and bottled in Germany. I have no idea if that effects the quality of it, just something to think about.
Anyone here tried vitacost's own brand? It's basically a replica of Carlson's finest but half the pricehttp://www.vitacost.com/vitacost-liquid-finest-fish-oil-omega-3-dha-epa
Do you guys prefer liquid over pills? I've been taking fish oil for years (just not in this volume) and I was thinking about making the switch. Is there any benefit of taking liquid as opposed to pills?
Dmunnee,I hear you and appreciate that new perspective.Without knowing a whole lot about it and launching a Geraldo-esque investigation, could it be that the same source material is shipped to Germany for bottling in the 'rebranded' bottles for any number of licensees?At any rate, I am working in faith that a) the EPA and DHA label claims are accurate and b) EPA is EPA and DHA is DHA, figuring that the compound is the compound, and call it a day. Sort of like 500mg of Acetominophen in a generic is the same as 500mg of acetominophen that comes in a bottle labeled Tylenol. (Any type of contamination concerns notwithstanding ;))Ignorance is bliss!
http://truenutrition.com/p-3290-health-from-the-sun-pfo-pure-fish-oil-liquid.aspx1tsp= 4360mgmy fav fish oil
http://truenutrition.com/p-3290-health-from-the-sun-pfo-pure-fish-oil-liquid.aspx1tsp= 4360mgmy fav fish oil
Not a bad choice, just slightly lower @ 715mg EPA+470mg DHA/tsp vs Carlson's @ 800mg EPA+500mg DHA/tsp at about $2 cheaper for an equivalent amount of the Carlson's.
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