Posted by Larry Hoover on November 23, 2002, at 13:09:12
In reply to You are right; I was slightly off-base, posted by bubblegumchewer on November 23, 2002, at 11:58:40
> I knew I was in the right neighborhood. Oh well, the company I buy from has at least done a good marketing job by convincing me that their stuff is not rancid. Sure enough, the bottle contents never smell fishy. I keep it in the fridge. They try to make it smell lemony. But won't any fish oil produce a fish burp under the proper unfortunate circumstances? I've had few of them with this brand but the occasional one will occur.
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> When I first started with any-brand-off-the-health-food-store-shelf, the fish burps were ferocious. I suspected the capsules were not-so-fresh.The thing to do is to break a capsule open. It shouldn't (ideally) already smell fishy. Just like fresh fish shouldn't smell fishy.
Even with fresh oil, if you take it on an empty stomach, I can almost guarantee fishy burps. Your stomach acid will hydrolyze the triglycerides to free fatty acids, and further oxidize the fatty acids to aldehydes (the fishy part). Gas formation, from oxidation of the glycerol part, completes the picture.
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