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Assessment of Lipid Quality in Commercial Omega-3 Supplements Sold in the French Market
Supplementation of omega-3 fatty acids is considered a valuable strategy to supply the low intake of these fatty acids. Thus, the safety of the supplements is an important milestone. Because of that, we analyzed 20 unflavored supplements sold in the French market for fatty acid and triglyceride comp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9599935/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36291569 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom12101361 |
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author | Pasini, Federica Gómez-Caravaca, Ana Maria Blasco, Thierry Cvejić, Jelena Caboni, Maria Fiorenza Verardo, Vito |
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description | Supplementation of omega-3 fatty acids is considered a valuable strategy to supply the low intake of these fatty acids. Thus, the safety of the supplements is an important milestone. Because of that, we analyzed 20 unflavored supplements sold in the French market for fatty acid and triglyceride composition, for EPA and DHA, and for tocol content, as well as for oxidative status. This study found that only 2.5% of the supplements did not meet their label claims for omega-3 content. TAG analysis showed high variability among the triglyceride distribution, and the same trend was also noticed for the tocol content; in fact, a high variability of the distribution of the six tocols (four tocopherols and two tocotrienols) was found among the samples. Of the tested products, all of them complied with peroxide value, p-anisidine value, and Totox values established by the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED) and were not oxidized. |
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spelling | pubmed-95999352022-10-27 Assessment of Lipid Quality in Commercial Omega-3 Supplements Sold in the French Market Pasini, Federica Gómez-Caravaca, Ana Maria Blasco, Thierry Cvejić, Jelena Caboni, Maria Fiorenza Verardo, Vito Biomolecules Article Supplementation of omega-3 fatty acids is considered a valuable strategy to supply the low intake of these fatty acids. Thus, the safety of the supplements is an important milestone. Because of that, we analyzed 20 unflavored supplements sold in the French market for fatty acid and triglyceride composition, for EPA and DHA, and for tocol content, as well as for oxidative status. This study found that only 2.5% of the supplements did not meet their label claims for omega-3 content. TAG analysis showed high variability among the triglyceride distribution, and the same trend was also noticed for the tocol content; in fact, a high variability of the distribution of the six tocols (four tocopherols and two tocotrienols) was found among the samples. Of the tested products, all of them complied with peroxide value, p-anisidine value, and Totox values established by the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED) and were not oxidized. MDPI 2022-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9599935/ /pubmed/36291569 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom12101361 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Pasini, Federica Gómez-Caravaca, Ana Maria Blasco, Thierry Cvejić, Jelena Caboni, Maria Fiorenza Verardo, Vito Assessment of Lipid Quality in Commercial Omega-3 Supplements Sold in the French Market |
title | Assessment of Lipid Quality in Commercial Omega-3 Supplements Sold in the French Market |
title_full | Assessment of Lipid Quality in Commercial Omega-3 Supplements Sold in the French Market |
title_fullStr | Assessment of Lipid Quality in Commercial Omega-3 Supplements Sold in the French Market |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of Lipid Quality in Commercial Omega-3 Supplements Sold in the French Market |
title_short | Assessment of Lipid Quality in Commercial Omega-3 Supplements Sold in the French Market |
title_sort | assessment of lipid quality in commercial omega-3 supplements sold in the french market |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9599935/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36291569 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom12101361 |
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