Salmon Oil

What is the difference between your Salmon Oil and standard fish oils?

Most fish oils on the market are derived from farmed Atlantic Salmon. Even fish oils labeled “Wild” or “Alaskan” may contain only a small percentage of the advertised oils, combined with cheaper commodity oil rendered from farmed Salmon and/or other species.

Atlantic Menhaden (brevoortia tyrannus) is a major source of the fish oil in standard mass-market brands. This small, inedible toothless fish is typically rendered in a whole, uneviscerated state (i.e., organs and all).

In contrast, Salmon Etc., utilizes only 100% pure wild Salmon oil, made exclusively from the heads of freshly harvested Alaskan Sockeye Salmon.

Processing occurs in a plant located only a few steps from where the fresh fish are unloaded, within hours of harvest. In addition to being an extremely “green” practice, this approach also insures that any contaminants present in the body fat and entrails are kept out of the oil.

Another significant difference involves the way various fish oils are processed:

Standard Fish Oils: Distilled and Denatured
Once rendered, standard fish oils are transported and stored in unrefrigerated 50 gallon drums, and typically undergo “molecular distillation” to remove contaminants such as mercury and PCBs.

During this process, the oil is heated to temperatures in excess of 450 degrees F, which is well above those found to adversely impact the structural integrity of fatty acid molecules (approx 350 degrees F).

in addition to removing contaminates, molecular distillation “denatures” the oil, altering and concentrating some molecules while removing others. The end result is that highly refined fish oil is extremely “pure”, however many of its fundamental properties are sacrificed.

Salmon Etc., Salmon Oil: Whole, Unrefined, and Pure
Salmon Etc., Sockeye Salmon Oil is extracted at temperatures below 225 degrees F. It is then maintained in sealed, refrigerated containers at all times between extraction and encapsulation.

Salmon Etc., Sockeye oil does not need to be distilled because wild Alaska Sockeye are exceptionally pure. Instead, our oil is simply cold-filtered and encapsulated in its whole, balanced form — a complex matrix that includes dozens of other naturally occurring fatty acids and phospholipids as well as potent carotenoid antioxidants.

You can purchase salmon oil right here!