How many fish oil capsules make 1,000 mg of EPA and DHA?
Our pick for each type, each format ranked separately: Fish Oil, capsules, softgels and tablets: Nature Made Omega-3 from Fish Oil 1200 mg (100 softgels); Algal Oil: Momentous Vegan Omega-3 (60 capsules) (before delivery). Types with no certified product are listed below. Where to buy
Between 1.0 softgels and 11.4 softgels, depending on the product. The milligrams in a fish oil product's name can be the weight of the oil rather than the EPA and DHA in it, so the count it takes to reach the same amount varies far more than the bottles suggest.
1,000 mg of combined EPA and DHA is the yardstick this site prices omega-3 against. It is not a recommended amount. Every count below is computed from the EPA and DHA each product's own Supplement Facts panel states per serving. Not counted: Sports Research Omega-3 Fish Oil Liquid, Lemon (8 oz), Animal Omega (30 packs), Thorne Omega Superb, Lemon Berry (6.76 fl oz) and Nature Made Fish Oil Gummies (90 gummies), sold in another form than single capsules or softgels. One row has no current price at a retailer we track and is counted all the same, because a count needs only the label.
4 products are not in this table because their labels do not state EPA and DHA amounts: which labels, and why that matters.
Fractional counts mean 1,000 mg does not land on a whole softgel; we report that rather than rounding up, because rounding changes the amount as well as the price.
Where to buy: the pick for each type
The pick is the cheapest certified product, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no adverse finding on record, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving; per delivered dose where the retailer publishes a delivery rate. Where none does, it is the cheapest such product before delivery, and it says how far the order is from free delivery. It is the same pick the category page shows.
How these lines are chosen
Among 54 products and 54 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below.
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no recall or failed test, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving. Where the retailer publishes no delivery rate, the pick is priced before delivery and says so. Nothing we track here clears all of those yet. This one clears the certification bar; what holds it back is on its line:
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no recall or failed test, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving. Where the retailer publishes no delivery rate, the pick is priced before delivery and says so. Nothing we track here clears all of those yet. This one misses at least one bar, and says which:
How these lines are chosen
Among 4 products and 4 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below. No product here that clears every other bar publishes a delivery rate below its free-delivery threshold, so the pick is priced before delivery.
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no recall or failed test, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving. Where the retailer publishes no delivery rate, the pick is priced before delivery and says so. Nothing we track here clears all of those yet. This one misses at least one bar, and says which:
- What is the cheapest NSF certified fish oil or omega-3?
- Krill oil vs fish oil: which costs less per dose of EPA and DHA?
- Is Sports Research fish oil third party tested?
- Is Momentous fish oil NSF certified?
- What is the cheapest omega-3 per 1,000 mg of EPA+DHA?
- Why does my fish oil label not say how much EPA and DHA it has?
Full comparison of every product in this category: Omega-3. Every question we answer: the question index.
What this rests on: prices we last recorded at the retailer named on each product page, which go stale, and each page says when it was checked; the products we track, not every product sold, and Amazon and Walmart are not among the stores; listings and labels read at the source, each linked from the page. Found an error? Tell us. The full method: How we compare.