I don’t particularly like to eat sardines however because I have high triglycerides, I’m trying to increase my omega-3 in my diet. I bought the season’s brand from Costco and today I bought canned sardines from Aldi, but it looks like Aldi brand has way higher omega 3 than Costco. Does anyone know if it’s correct?
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I mean now I want to know too. Have you considered calling their product service number and asking them how they determine the nutrition info?
Costco Seasons are usually (in my experience) boneless-skinless. We don’t have Aldi here so I don’t know what they sell. Are they boneless-skinless or more normal fishies?
I don’t know where the Omega lives, though I imagine skin and bones have a bunch. So maybe if you’re comparing “boneless-skinless” to “bone-in, skin on,” that could be the difference right there. Otherwise, I have no idea where they get the numbers.
Honestly I think that either one of both brands just have their numbers wrong. All three boxes are fished from the same area so it’s not like one has more fat than the other (as would be seen with colder climate fish).
I’m convinced that the wide variation on sardine nutrition labels has nothing to do with reality.
Every brand/cannery seems to have different nutritional values for the same species.
Maybe different species of sardine. There are 21.
I’ve never seen a can listed with 3,775mg of omega 3 before. Maybe because it’s twice as nice.
Ican’s cod liver has 900% rda of vit a and d in a single can whereas three line’s cod liver only has 90%. How is it possble both being icelandic cod liver, and that’s the only ingredient, they diverge so much on their stats?
The Aldi one is simply wrong, full stop. It claims to have 3,775 mg of omega 3 yet it only lists 3g of fat, total, which is why it’s only 100 calories. Every other nutrition label for sardines in water lists around 9g of fat and 160 calories for an 85g serving. Nutrition labels can be inaccurate by 20% legally and that’s why they vary significantly for seemingly identical sardines, but the Aldi one is beyond that.
it looks like the yellow label might be mixing up data for water packed sardines with oil packed sardines
There’s all kinds of suspicious claims being made here. For one thing, I am very hesitant to believe that the skinless sardines have the same amount of Omega-3 as the skin-on, since the skin is the Omega-3-richest part of the fish.
The Aldi one imo is incorrect. I have a ton of different sardine can brands in my house I just looked through them all. None of them are even close to 3775 mg.
Go to any grocery store and look up fish oil supplements for 1,000 mg of fish oil you need like a 1 inch long capsule. The idea of a few sardines holding like 4000 mg is almost laughable.