Gretchen Vannice

I’ve learned the best way to determine the freshness of a fish oil capsule is to bite the capsule and taste the oil inside.  When I am shown a new product, that is what I do.  It’s the only way to assess, short of laboratory analysis, if the product is fresh.  Bad (rancid) oil tastes bad. 

You don’t eat bad or rancid fish; would you swallow bad or rancid fish oil capsules? 

Oil in fish oil capsules ought to taste like fresh fish.  It’s from fish.  

Unfortunately, there are unfresh and unpure products available on the market.  They are very inexpensive to buy. 

In addition to the inherent problems with consuming rancid oils and toxins and impurities, the biggest problem with unfresh and unpure fish oil is that people don’t continue to take the product, and they DON”T REAP the valuable benefits.  That is the biggest problem.

Marketers want consumers to buy. 

I’m amazed at the response I get when I bite the capsule.  People respond with surprise, even fear.  I don’t understand.

Fish oil capsules are filled with fish oil.  Natural products use natural stabilizers.  If I’m going to swallow the product, why not taste it? 

What I know for sure, is that good quality fish oil – the type that will make a difference in health and disease – isn’t the cheapest on the market.