I don't know.
Most people want to reduce the total fat and calories in their diet, so if they want more DHA and EPA, eating lots of flax seed may not be the best strategy.
If you cook a raw oily fish like salmon or mackerel, you'll observe oil plentifully dripping from the skin and small amount of dark tissue under it, while the rest of the meat is fairly dry. I don't know how much of the fat from the skin migrates into the meat in canned fish.
I don't know. The sardines I eat haven't been molecularly distilled.
Interesting. I didn't know this.
good sources of dha 918sci.med,sci.med.nutrition,misc.kids.pregnancy : Well, I've found studies that seem to confirm that, at least for EPA (less for DHA), but there also factors inhibiting the...
I like purslane. I grow a domesticated form in my garden sometimes. How many pounds would I have to eat to equal one fish oil capsule or a can of sardines? Am I likely to do so daily? Can I absorb that relatively minute amount of EPA from that huge mbutt of roughage?
Well, if you don't digest them because the seed coat isn't broken, the calorie content is irrelevant. Many plants have seed coats resistant to digestion and use animals and birds to distribute their seeds by this method.
Refrigerating is a good idea. Rancid fats taste lousy.
Just be aware that it's a high fat food, and the calories do count.
