Do different Flax Oils have vastly different tastes? wtf?

[bran987]

I bought my first bottle of flax oil a few months ago and finished it. It didn't have much of a taste at all except for oily taste.

The only ingredient in that bottle was the flaxseed oil.
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This next bottle I bought has a spoiled type taste to it, but says it doesn't expire until June 2005.

It's "Health from the Sun" Liquid Gold Flax Oil - Vegetarian Omega-3
Nitrogen sealed freshness guaranteed, cold-pressed unrefined.

The ingredients in this bottle are: flax oil, rosemary extract, mixed tocopherols (Vit E), ascorbyl palminate (Vit C) and citric acid to protect freshness.

Do you think those extra ingredients are what is making it taste like shit or do you think I got a spoiled bottle????????

 

[bran987]

^please

 

[juve]

My advice:
Buy flax seeds.
Rationale:
1)Flax oil, when exposed to air, rapidly oxidizes and the byproduct of the aforementioned oxidation are oxidative metabolites/free radicals. This is a problem with many emulsified oils, including fish oil, just to a lesser extent.
2)You never know how the oil was produced - it better be cold-pressed, but supplement companies will say anything to sell
3)Flax seeds - very high in fiber, have some protein, rich in naturally occuring nutrients as opposed to filtrated oil.

Eat flax seeds - choke 3tbsp with protein shake or dump it in your oats or whatever 'cutting carbs' (lol) you consume

 

[bran987]

My advice:
Buy flax seeds.
Rationale:
1)Flax oil, when exposed to air, rapidly oxidizes and the byproduct of the aforementioned oxidation are oxidative metabolites/free radicals. This is a problem with many emulsified oils, including fish oil, just to a lesser extent.
2)You never know how the oil was produced - it better be cold-pressed, but supplement companies will say anything to sell
3)Flax seeds - very high in fiber, have some protein, rich in naturally occuring nutrients as opposed to filtrated oil.

Eat flax seeds - choke 3tbsp with protein shake or dump it in your oats or whatever 'cutting carbs' (lol) you consume

lord, you always throw a wrench into my plans juve lol
3 tbsp = how many calories total and how many omega-3? does it equal 1 TBSP of flax oil?

 

[juve]

3 tbsp = how many calories total and how many omega-3? does it equal 1 TBSP of flax oil?

^^yes.
and you also get fiber and protein

BTW, for omega-3's consume fish oil; flax seeds have their own benefits but are not efficacious source of DHA/EPA (in fact they don't contain it at all )

 

[Griz1]

Firstly, if you buy high lignan (sp?) flax seed oil it has a brutal taste compared to regular cold pressed flax seed oil. I can not stand the high lignan stuff...tastes like ass.

Second, if you go the flax seed route as suggested. If the flax seeds are not ground, sorry but your pretty much just wasting your time as they will pass through your digestive system mostly untouched. They need to be ground, chewed, or somehow broken from their whole state before ingestion.

That's how I understand it.

 

[bran987]

Firstly, if you buy high lignan (sp?) flax seed oil it has a brutal taste compared to regular cold pressed flax seed oil. I can not stand the high lignan stuff...tastes like ass.

Second, if you go the flax seed route as suggested. If the flax seeds are not ground, sorry but your pretty much just wasting your time as they will pass through your digestive system mostly untouched. They need to be ground, chewed, or somehow broken from their whole state before ingestion.

That's how I understand it.

up for juve & this potential flax seed problem?

 

[juve]

I don't seen how this is a problem at all.
I always consume flax seeds ground because chewing tends to cut your gums (sharp edges), not to mention it sticks all over your teeth; however even chewing them is not much of an issue - I mean you were given teeth, specifically the wider ones on the sides of your jaw, for a reason?
And high lignan, is simply a process of extraction/standardization - flax seeds themselves are rich lignans, the content is variable though; rationale for me to consume flax seeds always was alpha-linoleic acid content and polyunsaturated fats content over all, not lignans

 

[bran987]

ok, so saying I don't want to chew them up because of

I always consume flax seeds ground because chewing tends to cut your gums (sharp edges), not to mention it sticks all over your teeth;

what do you grind the seeds up in? a coffee grinder?

 

[Griz1]

you can buy them ground up already in alot of bulk food stores

Juve, I didn't notice that you mentioned that you ate them ground. So I guess it was an "assumed problem" on Bran's part.

That would look pretty funny though sitting there with blood running down your chin...
"Sup dude? Yer bleedin!"

"Oh I was just eatin my flax seeds..."

LOL