http://www.healthyreader.com/2006/08/21/fish-oil-supplements/ A guide to a healthy lifestyle. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:31:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.healthyreader.com/2006/08/21/fish-oil-supplements/comment-page-1/#comment-42 How to Test your Fish Oil Supplements for Quality | Healthy Reader Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:34:52 +0000 http://www.healthyreader.com/2006/08/21/fish-oil-supplements/#comment-42 [...] I take a fish oil supplement every day, and as with everything in my diet I want it to be the best quality I can buy. How can a typical consumer determine if their fish oil supplement is the best quality? Here is a simple tip from Dr. Sears of the Zone Diet program to test your fish oil yourself: “Take your fish oil and put it in the freezer. If it freezes, it’s probably not the good stuff because the fish oils will tend to freeze because they’re rich in saturated fats that can only be removed by the same refining process that removes the toxins. Here’s another simple test: Bite into it. If it’s very bland, then probably it’s a good material. If it’s kind of fishy, you can be guaranteed that it’s the sewer of the sea. That freezing test is probably your best indicator whether or not the material is highly purified and therefore possibly suitable for human consumption.” [...] [...] I take a fish oil supplement every day, and as with everything in my diet I want it to be the best quality I can buy. How can a typical consumer determine if their fish oil supplement is the best quality? Here is a simple tip from Dr. Sears of the Zone Diet program to test your fish oil yourself: “Take your fish oil and put it in the freezer. If it freezes, it’s probably not the good stuff because the fish oils will tend to freeze because they’re rich in saturated fats that can only be removed by the same refining process that removes the toxins. Here’s another simple test: Bite into it. If it’s very bland, then probably it’s a good material. If it’s kind of fishy, you can be guaranteed that it’s the sewer of the sea. That freezing test is probably your best indicator whether or not the material is highly purified and therefore possibly suitable for human consumption.” [...]

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