Why is the oil always from 'Cod Liver'? | Food Unwrapped
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- Why does 'Cod Liver Oil' always use cod? What's so special about it.
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"Icelanders are always smiling, they are very happy people." Part of me is wondering... could they be smiling because a) they are currently NOT drinking Cod Liver Oil, and b) they managed the get the rest of the world to BUY and drink, Cod Liver Oil? :-)
@Æsa Natalia Thought so. Although Iceland is a sort of a dream destination for me, having lived near the tropics, quite far from any coastline all my life 😂
@Æsa Natalia Dream over 😭
Laughed and upticked your wit, but Icelanders ARE beautiful.
Mainly cod liver was a natural source of vitamin D, that is how vikings managed to thrive in Northern Europe when in Central Europe people were suffering from rickets. But like they said in the clip, the modern processing destroys some of the vitamins and they get added on later.
Smoked cod liver spread on rye bread is lovely, if you like liver, fish and smoke flavour.
@Æsa It's a strange recurring theme (or maybe not so strange if you're conspiracy theorist). Many articles of "best cities to move to" often cite questionable destinations. Montreal is a common example that often top charts, but if you've ever lived there for longer than 3 (summer) months, there's no way you'll list it as a top spot.
I have been taking two big tablespoons of Seven Seas Cod Liver Oil every morning for years. I am now in my 40's and I have hardly a line on my face! My skin, nails and hair are in great condition. It's like putting fresh, clean oil into your car every day :)
Is it oil from the fish?
@@mouseuse yup
Why not the soft gel capsules from Seven Seas?
Careful, it’s a blood thinner.
in your 40s,you shouldnt have any lines yet
even if you dont take cod liver oil.
1:41 "That smells like mermaids'...... *aftershave* " We all know the word he started out with when he said that sentence.
If you watch really closely to his face when he takes a sip of the oil he just about holds back a gag reflex, subtle but funny.
Only then do you know that what you drank was real.
His accent just make everything better
She drank almost all of hers
chlorella and spirulina
You would have to pay me a significant sum to put cod liver oil anywhere near my mouth 🤢
The editing on the Icelandic cod-liver oil drinking scene is all over the plaice.
probably to remove his face of agony while the thick oil coats his tongue :P
lol yeah the oil levels in the cups keep changing between shots...
Whelk, you haddock your chance, but made a right pollack of it.
4:21 she’s enjoying that like a true connoisseur
3:03 in case you're in a hurry.
When we were kids , my parents use to give us cod oil by the spoon every morning..... tasted awful. I must say that i am thankful for pure stuff that we got.
Same in Spain.
& Newfoundland 😊
Same in Greece.
good parents
@@trentc1098 Have you got some when you were a kid?
My late father said he hated the taste of cod liver and used to have to take it. Back then it was kept on the shelf in a bottle, and probably went rancid from exposure to the air. Not packaged in little gelatin capsules like today.
As a child, I absolutely hated it. In hind sight, I'm pretty sure that the bottle my mother had was rancid too. I buy canned cod liver in it's own oil and I love it. I do have to admit, I watched several other people try it before I did. Now I like cod liver so much that I have to limit myself to one tin a week or else I'd go full glutton on it.
Who is your early and on time father?
The little gelatin capsules can go bad exposed to air too. Best to take from a freshly opened bottle
Why don’t you just eat salmon
@@VieteWalk It gives my wife diarrhea as she seems to be sensitive to fats.
The guy: throws up after smelling
The girl: 7 shots in the liver oil
She is actually 375 years old & doesn't look a day older than 75.
I'll have to start buying my fish whole , take it home and cook the liver myself. Very informative video !
Thanks !!!
I would suggest sell some as unpurified, much more healthy, give people the option, I think that they would be surprised how well it sells
yeah it makes no sense to remove the natural goodness and then to put the synthetic powdered "vitamins" in the oil.
Id be buying these for my chickens. But for now, id stick with olive oil
"it's surprisingly fishy innit?"
Yeah I'm surprised fish smells like fish myself
"Ah yes, The floor here is made out of floor"
very informative. i've always wondered about this.
In Soviet time all kids a must have fish oil daily, it was proven that fish oil can cure rickets at young age.
Wutz rickets
So can a lemon
@peace keeper vitamin D is not a vitamin. It is indeed a hormone.
Makes it all that much more important doesn't it...
@@OAXBORN Soft bomes that bend easily.
@@OAXBORN Soft bones that bend easily.
I'd rather have the fishy oil over the processed one if it has more vitamins.
Just eat the liver raw.
Look for "Virgin Cod Liver Oil". Less processed.
You can get your omega from other natural sources with less fishy breath/burps
@@johnvanegmond1812
Extra virgin... is more pure, the first squishing of the raw livers🐟👍🍻
@@djlowtek lamb supringly gas good omega 3 content
I read once that fish oil is the brain’s food so I asked my dad if and how much oil should I eat..without skipping a beat he replied...start with a whale son.....damn...lol
I see he's mastered the art of the dad joke. :)
A whale is not a fish.
A whale is a mammal not a fish.
Thank you for those who clarified a whale is not a fish....I’ll sleep better tonight knowing that
@@AA-tc5if
lol where were you during school hours ? skipping class ? 😂
My babci used to drink a shot of cod liver oil every day. In recent decades here in the US cod liver oil has gone down in popularity. It has been replaced by fish body oil from small fish. Usually, sardines, anchovies and mackerel are used. Supposedly, the smaller fish haven't bioaccumulated as much mercury and PCB's as the larger fish. There are processes to remove those toxins from larger fish. Yet, if you have to put vitamins back in why not just take the fish body oil?
It has a much higher DHA content than fish oil (good for your brain).
First, Most of what has been said here is rubbish, How do I know? well in the early 70's before the Common Market destroyed the British fish industry, I did a couple of trips on a deep sea trawler out of Hull. On the deck there were two big vats which were fired up as soon as we started trawling, These Vats were tended by the Apprentices/Decky learners and the proceeds were shared by those lads, sort of as a bonus to make up for the small size of their share of the main catch. It was Cod Liver Oil vats, But any fish liver went in, Cod, Herring, Skate, even Coley liver went in. It was bought by Seven Seas usually, purified, bottled and sold as Cod Liver Oil. If we only caught Cod it was Cod liver Oil, BUT When other livers went in you couldn't tell the difference, But the lads prefered Cod because it gave the biggest yield. One trip we didn't catch any Cod at all, but the Vats of liver oil was still sold as Cod Liver Oil.
I can trust you
I remember when the Trawlers used to come into dock in Hull , we used to meet my father and the blokes used to sling us on the decks and my father would catch us , he used to tell us about the vats. His names Terry J. Taylor . uncle was Ray Joplin ( sadly passed away now ) , but Maureen Joplin ( my dads sister is still here ).
Thanks for the explanation 👍
alright settle down old timer
well it would be rubbish for the early 70's yea, but for 2020 it's true
By the way, the other fish waste oil is also fit for human consumption if it went through the same process as the cod liver oil.
I use salmon oil I purify myself.
I think It's quite good with additional nutrients.
The best thing I ever did was start taking a teaspoon of the liquid Cod Liver Oil once a day starting about 4 years ago. I can sure tell the difference in my health. Great video. I always wondered how Cod Liver Oil was produced. Definitely have some great health benefits.
When I first started taking CLO I don't think it was going through all of those processes to make it taste better because it was really strong, fishy and really nasty tasty. But I learned how to choke it down. However for the past 2 years I've been taking it, it has been very mild and I don't mind the taste at all though I detect a very slight fish taste.
if taking cod liver oil is the best thing youve ever done you should really get yourself a hobby or something mate
Can you tell us how it improved your health? U sure u didn't do anything else in those 4 yrs? Lol
@@Aguycalledmax he ment for health
Hello Icelandic cod liver oil CEO
I had cod liver oil once thinking I could drink more (I saw it in a movie, Stand by Me. I never made it out the door. I threw up all over the bathroom and went to bed with a bucket. This stuff is nasty. Just watching it I threw up my Almond milk egg nog which is really good but the cod liver memories of 1987 are still with me.
They state the processed oil loses half of its vitamins therefore they add vitamins back in .They don't state how.
My great grandfather used to make his own in a barrel and would drink a ladle of it a day. (This was before the Cod Moritorium here in Newfoundland)
Now with sport fishing of Cod allowed, have you learned his method?
@@johnvanegmond1812 sadly no cause it died with him. My father and grandfather both have tried but failed to recreate it
@@bleachmaster99 Your turn. :)
@@johnvanegmond1812 lol if I could find an old fashioned barrel then I would
I grew up on my mom giving my siblings and I the natural fishy tasting cod liver oil. These days I am not sure what I am really getting. I just do not know what to trust these days with all the fakes and scams.
Buy Møllers Tran. Norwegian, and genuine.
Didn’t know Cod’s had such a big liver
Cod be like "leave us alone, Cod Lives matter"
Lmao
No justice no peace✊🦈🐠
All those spots on the liver? Roundworms. Hundreds. And you better believe they do NOT have a crew to pick them out--coming from a man who worked on a cod catcher-processor at sea for 2 years.
So we're also getting the added benefits of the roundworm liver? Mmmmm, roundworm.
So...that's gross. Are you saying all cod liver has roundworms? Should I be concerned?
I didn't see any spots
So you cook out all the vitamins and minerals then add them back in at the end? That makes sense!
If they don’t purify it I’m sure you wouldn’t like the taste it would make you sick
She said 1/2 the vitamins are removed through the process, that's why they add them back in. Otherwise the taste would be repulsive.
@@actiondisplays how do you feel that taste in capsule?
@@actiondisplays The vitamins they ad back in are synthetic and undesirable/
@@justas5183 Probably more for shelf life than for taste.
Adding synthetics back in will have not the same bioavailability
Sometimes those synthetics are better and healthier than the natural
@@omegamedia3508 no, not at all. Better than nothing though. It is still good, but a bit mislabeling. It is the synthetics that cause toxicity at high doses
I’d rather have the unprocessed fishy smelling oil..
@@JohnJohnson-wy6fk That is absolutely untrue. Wherever you are getting your info from is feeding you lies.
@@fiddley It is called general biochem and nutrition buddy. For example,Vitamins are not individual molecular compounds, but complexes. There are co-factors that are missing from individual supplements. Ascorbic acid is not vitamin c and retinoic acid is not vitamin A.
Go to pubchem,pubmed, or Google scholar to educate yourself. I dont have time to explain everything to you
That woman skin is beautiful must be that fish oil.
it is a bit shiny!
for her age most definitely...i mean it...little oily is no problem, better then dry flaky skin - thats much more suspectible to sunshine and filth...speaking from personal exp :) :P
In Iceland, harsh cold air and alot of UV. Really impressive.
I noticed no wrinkles
Doesn't sound good when you have to add vitamins back into it, also what temperature was it heated up to ?
I didn't know processed cod liver oil had vitamins added back into it. I wonder if they get the vitamins from more cod liver or another source.
That’s probably exactly what they do. Just add more cod liver oil back into the batch. 🤷🏻♂️
What's the point of extracting cod liver oil if they have to add the vitamins back.
@@SirChivalRegal There's more to cod liver oil than vitamins. I don't why they bother adding them back in.
No, unfortunately the vitamins they add are synthetic. That's why it's best to buy extra virgin cod liver oil. It's much more expensive than the highly processed oil with added synthetic vitamins, but it's more bioavailable so you need less of it. In my view, the real deal is worth the extra cost.
I freeze my fish oil, by time it dissolves, it's already down so far, I never taste it nor burp it up
Those cod livers look so delicious 😌 I’m happy to eat them rather than drinking the oil
After a childhood illness, I was required to swallow a large spoonful of cod liver oil each night. It must have been the unrefined oil. It tasted awful, and caused nocturnal burps. I wonder if I derived any health benefits that would have not been better served by a daily vitamin?
Same thing with me! Nice taste! Lol
You are probably in your forty?
@@mareknosek996 I'm in my 60s.
Perhaps it was and still is far superior. The biggest problem with modern food is its processed. 😔 and this coming from a young man born im the early 90's. I'm in my late 20's.
every nutritionist can tell you the benefits of liver. you could practically live on it. A, D, Magnesium, Potassium, Omega 3 without all the extra omega 6. All very difficult to get from any other source. The heat treating unfortunately destroys most of the vitamin A and D. Sometimes they use liver based vitamin A to supplement it, but often it's a more artificial, less absorbable source. Even without the added A and D, cod liver is a great nutritional supplement.
Some kinds of liver however you should not eat and can poison you to some extent. Dog liver I have heard was avoided by explorers of the south pole for that reason.
just eating the oil is ridiculous though
They destroy the liver and its oil by 8 step processing. Just buy a frozen liver and eat it raw. I eat grass fed, grass finished beef liver raw.
Is ADDING vitamins the same as naturally found in the liver? We consume liver oil for The oil or for the vitamins?
Instead of ADDING vitamins artificially why can't we have the natural elements with an extra dose whatever is required?
you can
For what you consume oils?
@@flowercollector9013 it's not as effective though
i just buy the cods directly and then cookthe liver and eat it.
yeah that's much better!
How does this practice prevent the loss of vitamins, which is the purpose of having cod oil?
@@SalmanbinAthar cooking doesnt deplete so much vitamins, unlike deodorisation with chemicals
@@justas5183 and you also don't have to overcook meat
I think humans have now mastered their dominance over every living thing on earth. It was great to finally see visuals on the collection of millions of fish, properly gutted for one single part, then the industrial processing of one single constituent of that one part, so that already well-fed humans can sip on an elixir made from the distilled dead parts of earth creatures. Looking forward to future concoctions from the species human, such as giraffe bone oil, lizard turd extract, and god’s hair clippings pizza
Lool
Cod liver is actually healthy. If there's one form of animal consumption I don't mind, it's stuff like this.
So what do you eat for food?
Fish oil is a great sleep aid! It helps to relief a snoring.
Grew up in Central America taking this, specifically the 7Seas brand. We also took shark oil. Funky but good for the body.👍🏿
Not for the sharks lol
What type of scum eats sharks?
If "Food Unwrapped" never 100% be honest with us, why don't he just add another question, "what are those vitamins did you add back?"
Synthetic vitamins of course with no real value for the body, what a shame
Yeah synthetic ones which defeats having it imo highly processed crap in a bottle unless u get roseta extra virgin cod liver oil tht is
Also look at how many cuts there is keep an eye on her cup lol
well, I didn't wonder why it was always just cod, but now I'm glad that I know.
I just bought $100 of Icelandic cod liver in the tin cans and I will be buying another $500 more of it. It’s truly a superfood and it’s very delicious.
How is it and where can we get it?
@@QueenLiliTheRed $32 for 12 cans.
Very delicious
Thank you once again Dr Omole on TH-cam for this information. Since following you (for some years now), my kidney stage results has decrease from stage 3 to stage 1. You saved me from dialysis. Thank you and please keep the videos coming!! God Bless….
I want to buy there suplemnt what's the company name ?
I take a swig of cod liver oil every day at supper, I don't mind the taste
I just wish it weren't so damn expensive...
I wonder if there's another word for cod liver oil that is sold in larger cheaper quantities
I can't really put a finger on it, but there is something fishy going on here.
Ha Ha Ha Ha.. .. .
Heheheh
Hah
Y'all should supply me with 0.25% of that. I have 11 cats
What's the oil for then if the vitamins are available separately?
Omega 3 lol
There's still more than half the bioavailable A and D in Cod liver oil, it's just that a lot gets destroyed in the cooking process
Love to Iceland...
It turns out Iceland is a lot closer to England than i imagined
I now I go there shopping there every week
@@melonheadr9821 From England?
@@robdixson196 I now was only joking lol
@@melonheadr9821 I bet some do:))
I wonder if the vitamins they add back in are synthetic.
Wow... Thanks for the video
I missread the thumbnail and tittle as "Why God?" and "God liver" lol..
satan**
I bet he took that shot holdin his breathe 🤣🤣
I enjoy the whole cod liver on crackers toast or with a salad and cheese.
Never had, taste?
Ok if cod liver oil is in capsules, why not just produce them from the crude unfiltered stuff that has all the vitamins and such? Surely you won't care of the flavour as you won't taste anything with a capsule?
You'd prob end up with fishy breath. The host did say it had a fishy taste before the final filtering. So perhaps filtering it more ensures that u don't get that.
This series is delightful. 😜
I accidentally bit into one of those capsules. The vomit came up immediately. Nastiest experience of my life.
It stands for call of duty...the fish is a veteran 😂
I can’t take cod liver oil. Within a few days of taking it I get what one could call heart burn or indigestion. The first time I experienced it I was at work and had this weird feeling I was having a panic attack. I experimented with taking cod liver oil on and off and sure enough there was a connection. I can take krill oil. It does not cause me the indigestion feeling in the chest. Weird, I know.
@matt matt let me know about your experience :o
I eat sardine... But they don't give liver :(
americans when they find out fish have oil in then: T H E O C E A N K N O W S N O B O U N D S
Oh My Cod!
4:38 ahmm.............crude oil ?
😂😂😂
Good stuff!
Her skin looks great so the cod liver oil must work
I love cod, especially warzone
Seeing this dude reminded me of the show Jimmys Food Factory. Wish they made more episodes of that.
thanks
When add the vitamins back in after processing are they synthetic vitamins? Thats not so good!
How can we get the unfiltered oil ?
do you guys see her skin? it’s that cod liver oil. purrr, off to the market babes 💅👜
I like that woman, she seems happy 😊
Because cod liver is the best.
Which is great if that what you always get.
Sufficient to say, caveat emptor. There's good stuff available, but do read those labels.
Can someone recommend a brand name of this oil from Iceland ? Thank you
Thank you. Welll done.
I clicked on this vid to find out about cod oil I wasn't expecting to see my home town
I will just stick to coconut liver oil.
I generally just get canned coconut liver pate. Good source of protein.
The subtitles for the Icelandic lady were so unnecessary lmao
The heat extraction, de-oderising and "purification" that goes on in mass produced cod liver oil renders it useless. Theres no point consuming it.
Yes. The woman even explained that the process destroys more than half of the vitamin content and that later vitamins are added to make up for that. So the customer is actually buying fish oil with artificial vitamins added.
This is why it's so super important to choose a top quality cod liver oil with premium sourcing and production methods... we'd LOVE for you to try ours! 😆🐟⭐
American: We declaring taht Iceland have a nuclear missile. We will invade them. later on, we may say that we wan to give freedom to their citizen. For Oil! I mean for Freedom!
Sadly Iceland is not in the way of the expansion of israel so the usa wont invade
@@spacemeter3001 but Iceland, like other nordic countries, is socialist country
USA not gonna let this continue!
Like what happen in Vietnam
@@DBT1007 Even better. Just means that the tribe controls the people even more.
My Gran used to make me take JELLIED cod liver oil stirred into milk, possibly the most horrible thing I've ever had!
I prefere the real cod livers from a can. Goes really well with eggs and avocado on a toast!
ugh ,....:(
Wow 👏 l hope we can buy this in cans! Where did you get it, may l ask? 🦈🦈🦈
@@argylemcgoogin3298 There are many options on Amazon. I couldn't decide which to buy, so I just bought all of them so I can decide which one I like the most.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou Which one did you end up liking?
@@niellalien Honestly, they all taste good to me. The cod liver itself is delicious. The cod liver oil, on the other hand, is definitely an unpleasant gulp but palatable enough when mixing with other food as part of a meal. Recently, I've just been taking cod liver oil as a supplement because the amount of oil in a single can is just a lot. I'm curious how much of the vitamin A and D are in the oil versus the liver itself. I wanted to compare the cost effectiveness of canned cod liver in its own oil versus cod liver oil supplement, but the nutrition labels for the canned cod liver are all over the place despite basically being the same product, so I'm not sure how comparable they all really are. It probably wouldn't hurt to just calculate vitamin A and D per dollar and just go with whatever is cheapest, but, then again, I wouldn't want to reward a manufacturer who inflates the nutritional values, so I'll probably just continue to buy from different companies since they're all essentially the same product.
If you're curious, these are the ones I've purchased and enjoyed:
Threeline (currently $33 for a 12-pack of 4.3 oz cans-I paid $36)
Belveder (currently $39 for a 12-pack of 4.2 oz cans-I paid $38)
Sanniti (currently $40 for a 12-pack of 4.3 oz cans-I paid $40)
iCan (currently $61 for a 12-pack of 4 oz cans-I paid just $43)
A interesting and informative video, And quite jolly, thank you.
In childhood, I was given halibut liver oil capsules.
Wonder if unprocessed oil would sell ?
LOVE this content!! How i really wish im given so many bottles of high quality goods like that. Amazing.
No wonder Iceland is always the hardest place to infect in Plague Inc. Cod liver was doing some immunoboost or something.
Why would you process it further and diminish the vitamins only to add it back, I bet they add synthetic Vit D to an otherwise already great organic product
Hope chinese guys will invent lab made liver oil. Cheaper.
Narrator: "This oil is exported to Europe"
Brexit: "I'ma 'bout to end this fish head's whole career"
Nah, Considering most of the EU is landlocked, and most cod sold in europe are fished in British, Swedish and Norwegian waters, folks will be hard-pressed to get cod liver oil from anywhere else.
Brexit means
Brexit has nothing to do with private trade contracts you donut
@@garlicmuncher do tariffs not apply to trade contracts? And the increased cost of customs checks that people are now paying for won't affect the price and therefore viability of the product because...? I'm interested what you think are private contracts too. Literally all import and export is carried out under the government trade agreements with customs checks that have only existed since the first day of this year.
Anybody who works with a roll-up door and says they haven't done the limbo under it... are lying.
I have not!
Iceland with all that oil needs democracy says America.
Brilliant
I thought the thumbnail was "why god?" like the fish was asking why their lord had forsaken them to be used for oil.
I have enlarge prostate, is it safe to take fish oil, thank you.
Thank you.
was it a serious question why they didn´t use herring liver oil? a herring got 30x less liver than a cod! same goes with spawn, we eat cod spawn because even a medium size cod produces 3-4dl of spawn. a herrings spawn can barely fill a teaspoon
great vid, thank ya
I wish I was more into fish. I gag walking pass the sea food section at the grocer. :(