FIG. 1 Stability of Ordinary Fish Oil and Eskimo-3 After Exposure to Air.
Total n-3 fatty acids in plasma phospholipids showed an increase from 6.4f 1 .O to 8.lk2.0 percent,
EPA from 1.3kO.6 to 1.9-10.6 and DHA from 3.4f0.5 to 4.OkO.6 percent (all ~~0.05) after only
2 weeks of intake of bread containing fish oil and there was no further increase after 4 weeks (Fig.2).
The fatty acids did not change after intake of the control bread.
Triglycerides in serum showed a decrease from 1.38 f0.15 to 1.15 f0.24 mmol/L after intake of
bread containing fish oil (p < 0.05), but remained unchanged after intake of the control bread (Fig.3).
Total cholesterol and HDL cholesterol did not change.
Plasma cl-tocopherol, TBARS and glucose were not altered after intake of either fish oil bread (Table
3).
Only 2 of 195 subjects perceived any taste or aroma of fish in the bread containing fish oil in the
sensory test. 70% of the consumers estimated the ordinary bread to be “good”, 26% “neither good
nor bad” and 4% thought it was “bad”. 68 % of the consumers valued the bread made with fish oil
as “good”, 22% as “neither good nor bad” and 10% as “bad”.