Omega-3 Fish Oil, 1000mg EPA/DHA

Description

Omega-3 fish oil with 1,000 mg of combined EPA and DHA per serving, in the triglyceride form, with a TOTOX oxidation figure and a heavy metal panel on the lot certificate instead of a line of reassurance on the carton. The number that decides the value of any omega-3 fish oil is not the weight of the softgel. It is the milligrams of EPA and DHA inside it, and those two are printed separately here with the combined total underneath them.

What is on the panel

Why softgel weight is the wrong omega-3 fish oil number

A softgel labelled 1,000 mg is telling you how much oil is in the shell. Of that, in a standard unconcentrated oil, roughly 300 mg is EPA and DHA and the remaining 700 mg is other fatty acids and glycerol. Two bottles can carry the same front number and differ threefold in the compounds the research is about.

So the only comparison that holds is milligrams of EPA plus DHA per day against cost per day. This serving reaches 1,000 mg combined, which takes two or three softgels of a typical unconcentrated oil. Every listing on the omega and fats page is priced that way, and the reasoning is in why price per milligram beats the price on the bottle.

Triglyceride against ethyl ester

Fish oil concentrates are made by converting the natural triglycerides into ethyl esters, which is cheaper and allows higher concentration. Re-esterified triglyceride products put the fatty acids back onto a glycerol backbone, which costs more. Both are legitimate and both appear on the market at the same stated milligrams, so the form belongs in the amount column rather than in the small print. This one states triglyceride.

What the omega-3 fish oil trials administered

Published trials have mostly given 1 to 4 grams a day of combined EPA and DHA over periods from eight weeks to several years, with endpoints including plasma and red cell fatty acid concentrations, triglyceride measurements, and in the larger cardiovascular studies clinical event counts. That is a description of the doses administered and the measurements recorded in the literature. It is not a claim about this bottle, and the combined figure is printed so you can place a serving against those numbers yourself.

Oxidation has units, and most sellers never mention them

Marine oils oxidise. Peroxide value, anisidine value and the composite TOTOX figure measure how far that has gone, and the industry reference limit for TOTOX is 26. Our certificates carry all three. A rancid lot fails and is withdrawn rather than discounted, which is the only sensible way to treat a number that describes freshness.

Mercury, and why this panel exists

Methylmercury concentrates up the marine food chain, so species and position in that chain matter more than brand. Small oily fish sit low in it. An omega-3 fish oil made from them still gets screened for mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic on every lot here, along with dioxins and PCBs, because a published result settles the question and an argument about why testing is unnecessary does not.

Who should look at the algal version instead

Anyone who does not eat fish, and anyone who dislikes the reflux an omega-3 fish oil can cause. The algal product on the omega page is grown in tanks and carries no marine contaminant exposure route at all, at a higher cost per gram of actives. It is the same two fatty acids from the organisms that made them in the first place.

Testing and reference reading

Every lot of this omega-3 fish oil is assayed by a laboratory with no ownership tie to this company for EPA and DHA content, oxidation parameters, heavy metals and microbials. Lots under their printed amount are pulled from sale and the failing certificate stays published, for the reason set out in why we publish the batch that failed.

The NIH omega-3 fact sheet lists intake references, the EPA and DHA content of common foods and a readable summary of the trial evidence, and it sells nothing. This product is shelved with the vitamins range, and the omega-3 fish oil certificate for your bottle is linked above.