Let me start off by saying that I don’t like the taste of salmon. I can’t stand it.
I started taking fish oil here a while back, and I was really having some bad burps from it. I pushed through, knowing how important it was.
Then one day one of the capsules burst in my mouth. I’m not sure how. I nearly puked on my keyboard at work. I tasted fish oil for the rest of the day.
I can’t do it any more. I just can’t do it.
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Folly,
Were the capsules that you were taking entericly (sp?) coated? That is supposed to preven the smell and fish burps. The ones that I take are from Wal-Mart and I haven’t had a problem with burps or smell.
[quote]Leafblighter wrote:
You need to get Carlson’s lemon-flavored liquid. No chance of it bursting in your mouth, and absolutely 0 fishy taste. If it gives you burps, you have lemon burps, which bother me a lot less than fish burps
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OMG…
If only I had seen this yesterday. I bought 250 fishoil caps this morning. These belches are horrible.
[quote]mica617 wrote:
Folly,
Were the capsules that you were taking entericly (sp?) coated? That is supposed to preven the smell and fish burps. The ones that I take are from Wal-Mart and I haven’t had a problem with burps or smell.
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It’s been a couple of years since that happened. I don’t remember if they were enterically coated, but I will look for those as well. It’s worth a shot to try again, I guess. Thanks
None of you should do any whining about fish oil CAPSULES. Christ. Buy a bottle of unflavored fish oil SANS capsule, and start knocking back 1.5 oz shots of that. Then talk to me about awful taste and belching.
I did this for about 3-4 months, until even the thought of taking a fish oil shot made me wretch. Then I switched to capsules. Trust me, I’ll never complain.
I’ve just added fish oil back into my diet so no stories here yet.
I can vouch for Carlson’s Fish Oil, though. That stuff is good! Unlike TC’s column, I couldn’t find any at Whole Foods, but bought it at the Vitamin Shoppe.
I’m sensitive to fish too. If I taste or even smell certain types of fish/seafood I’ll start gagging almost immeditately. I could somewhat tolerate fish oil caps, but Carlson’s does an excellent job in hiding the fish taste. I can have it as is, or mix it with a Grow! shake, no problems.
It is lemon flavored and at least my first couple of bottles have tasted about as good as a fish oil supplement can taste. I coudln’t detect a hint of fish flavor. There’s also a lot of information on the website link above about the benefits of cod liver oil. It takes a while to get it… took 3-4 weeks for me.
I’ve been taking Dr Dave’s Best fish oil capsules for a little over a month now. I dropped 18 lbs. and 2 inches since then, feel much much better in health, feel clearer and ran my APFT 2 miler in 13:26 (down from over 15 min.). The belches suck, so I fight that off with winterfresh gum even though they aren’t THAT bad. I think you gotta start on the fish oil if you haven’t already and see for yourself. I started out immediately with 4 softgels 3 times a day. I felt like hell for a few days while my urine smelled REALLY bad. Suddenly I felt better and just started today with the two softgels 3 times a day, now that I dropped all that fat and got a handle on my appetite for breads and lard-creating foods. I’m noticing great strides in my athletic performance and recovery, as well as in my joints and connective tissue soreness.
Yeah, like many, I couldn’t tolerate the fish burps induced by the capsules…I now use “Health From The Sun” liquid fish oil (orange)…ZERO fishy taste/burps…It tastes like a liquified orange Lolipop.
The knock on liquid is the convenience factor, if you travel. Otherwise, it’s the only way to go (for me personally).
As for as effectiveness, it has GREATLY reduced a benign arrhythmia condition (PVC’s)that I’ve tolerated for about 20 years. It’s anti-arrhythmogenic effects are documented in clinical studies…worked for me.
[quote]indra wrote:
As for flaxseed oil I’m not really sure this works and have read an article about reduced testosterone when you take flaxseed oil so i don’t touch it. Not really sure why you would if you take fish oils.[/quote]
I used to take both fish and flax oils until I read recently that the fats in flax are associated with higher prostate cancer rates while the fats in fish are associated with lower. Sure, they probably cancel-out (and it could be hogwash to begin with), but why take a chance? I get enough through the fish oil, really.
lately i’ve been taking “omega 3 fish oils” from “olympian labs”. they say on the label “tested for mercury and toxic minerals” of course it doesn’t say what the results of that testing is haha !
anyway i’ve been through a couple of bottles and they don’t smell or give me any burps at all. the soft gels are crystal clear and the oil’s straw colored so you can see if there’s any oxidation or not. still for all i know it’s canola oil in there and fish oil’s really the new snake oil ha ha !
Can someone explain this to me:- my fish oil capsules state that they are 1000mg Capsules. And then they go on to say that EPA is 180mg and DHA is 120mg (or vice versa, cant remember) and altogether its 300mg. Does that mean the actual Omega3 content of each capsule is 300mg or is it the full 1000mg?
Is EPA and DHA the total sum of Omega 3 or are they parts of it? Trying to figure out which oil / capsule is the better priced one for omega 3 content, fish oil or flaxseed oil.
