There are three ways you can get fish oil in supplements: Ethyl Esters (EE) - the majority of oils on the shelves at retail are in this form. Natural triglycerides are broken down through refining to free fatty acids and glycerol by breaking the ester bond which attached the three fatty acid molecules to the glycerol backbone (tri - glycerides). Reformed Triglycerides (rTG ) - these are EEs that are enzymatically or chemically reattached to a glycerol molecule so as to put them back into a Natural Triglyceride Form. This process is expensive so most fish oil refiners prefer to stop at the EE form for softgel encapsulation. A few Omega-3s claim to be in the rTG from. There is no scientific evidence that rTGs are more bioavailable than the EE form and certainly not than the nTG form. Some fish oil markets would like to claim otherwise. Naturally Formed Triglycerides (nTG); this is the form that the Omega-3 fatty acids take when you consume them in your diet, like by eating oily fish. This is the natural form that the oils come in, not a chemically reconstructed form from purified EEs.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:13:54 +0000
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