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(More customer reviews)So this is a 1-star rating of Barlean's Flax Oil relative to other brands of flax oil, NOT flax oil itself. Flax oil is great for you and 5-stars and what some people seem to be reviewing. As an aside it has a ratio of 4:1 (omega 3 to omega 6). The reason we're hearing so much about it is the average American / European diet is generally around 1:20 (omega 3 to omega 6) which leads to a variety of health consequences. The ratio was estimated to have been around 1:1 in the early human diet and is considered to be be optimal somewhere around 1:1 to 1:4 when you add up all your daily dietary fats (you can google or wikipedia this). So... if your diet is largely omega 6 fats like most people's is, you cut back on your total fat intake, and then replace some of those fats with a source that is high in omega 3 vs omega 6 fats (i.e. flax oil) and hence you improve your total fat ratio by making it closer to the optimal.
HOWEVER, this Barlean's Flax Oil is the painfully wrong choice for doing this and it pains me to see it so popular and so many people using this to try flax. I've been taking flax oil for half a decade and understand the taste and differences extremely well. IF IT IS GIVING YOU INDIGESTION, IT IS BECAUSE THE OIL HAS GONE RANCID. If it tastes bad, it is because the oil has gone rancid. Flax oil is highly reactive with oxygen and with light and goes bad EXTREMELY EXTREMELY fast. This Barlean's bottle has a 6-month expiration date on it from production to consumption (which in the summer isn't sufficient). Unless you are lucky, your oil will go bad before you finish using it or even before you even get it in the mail, i guarantee it. I've tried 5 different brands over the years (Barlean's, Spectrum (Naturals / Essentials), Vitaminshoppe, Swanson, and Nature's Way). The best by far has been the Spectrum Naturals (also known as Spectrum Essentials some places, I'm not sure why) and in fact I didn't realize this problem until my normal website ran out of Spectrum Flax and I switched over to Barlean's and had to send 14 bottles back cause all 14 were rancid when I got them. I've since ordered from Amazon and got 2 bottles of Barlean's, 1 which I almost made it through entirely before it went bad and the second 8 oz was bad by the time I got to it.
The Spectrum Oil which had been lasting me I found out is filtered to remove the stuff that makes it go rancid, Barlean's is unfiltered. In addition it is packed w/ an inert gas to avoid oxidation, to my knowledge Barlean's is not. It is also shipped in refrigerated trucks, I'm not sure about Barlean's (although honestly I don't think this matters much, your oil is going to be sitting in a warehouse somewhere and then shipped and that is the biggest worry and the majority of oxidation risk and why you want the filtering and the inert gas). If you hadn't thought of this issue, I agree unfiltered may or may not be better and if you have a way that you can happen to get fresh, unfiltered Barlean's it will taste good and be fine (but will need to be used extremely extremely quickly after opening. I just found that too hard to impossible so switched back to Spectrum which I've found Swanson Vitamins has at reasonable prices (under "Spectrum Essentials" and actually cheaper than this Barlean's). Finally one small pet peeve is the cap system is the best on the Spectrum Oils. IT DOES NOT LEAK. I think the Barlean's is OK and will be fine if you only use it to squirt, but if you remove the cap to pour out a tablespoon / teaspoon sized amount it will be leaking when you put the cap back on from the oil that was under the cap when you took it off (especially if you shake before use as directed). It may not seem like much now, but it is a big deal if you are doing that several times a day and you find your hands and freezer now getting all oily with an oil that turns out to be going rancid on you anyway.
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