Learn The Process Of Choosing The Best Fish Oil Supplements

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It's time to stop researching and start taking those omega 3 fish oil capsules that you know are so important to your health. But now that you have spent some time looking around you have suddenly discovered so many different brands of fish oil supplements that you really don't know which ones to buy. How do you decide which are the best fish oil supplements.

Here's 4 things for you to use to make a comparison between the different brands of fish oil supplements.

1. Compare supplements by the amount of DHA in the supplements.

DHA is the most important of all the omega 3 essential fatty acids.

Fish oil is not all DHA. In fact there is a wide variation in the amount of DHA that you find in different fish oil capsules. You can see on the label of any bottle of omega 3 capsules how much DHA you are buying. If it's not stated then you have no idea how much DHA you are getting.

The amount of DHA in fish oil capsules ranges from well under 10 percent to almost 30 percent. Some well-known fish oil capsules have only 8 percent DHA whilst the best Omega 3 capsules have 28 percent DHA.

2. Compare capsules by value, not price.

You can't compare different Omega 3 capsules by price because each may have differing levels of DHA and it's only the DHA that you're buying. You can't compare a capsule with only 8 percent DHA to another capsule that has 28 percent. The only way to make a proper comparison is a value comparison on a cost per gram of DHA basis.