Omega-3
What the European Food Safety Authority and the United States National Institutes of Health have published about Omega-3 intake, and what the catalogue records. Reference figures and citations only.
Stacky is an organisational tool, not a medical device. It does not provide medical advice, and nothing on this page says what Omega-3 does. Talk to a doctor or pharmacist before starting, stopping or changing what you take.
Published intake references
Each figure is one authority’s published value, with the kind of figure and the people it applies to as that authority stated them. Where the EU and the US differ, both are shown and neither is averaged or converted. Only a tolerable upper intake level sets a ceiling. A recommended or adequate intake is context, not a limit.
EUEuropean Union — EFSA
Applies to one chemical form only: combined EPA + DHA EUEFSA
USUnited States — NIH ODS / IOM
Applies to one chemical form only: alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) USNIH ODS
Applies to one chemical form only: alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) USNIH ODS
“None established” means that authority examined Omega-3 and set no upper limit. What it published instead is below, with its own label.
Also published, and not a limit
These are the authority’s own words for a figure that is not a tolerable upper intake level. The app never compares a dose against one; this page prints it because the authority did.
To cite a figure, cite the authority’s document linked on its card, and this page as where you read it: stacky-app.com/substances/omega-3, retrieved 13 November 2026. Every card has its own address: add #eu-ai-1 to the page URL for the first one.
Products in Stacky’s catalogue containing Omega-3
2 products whose label declares Omega-3, listed by brand and drawn as the app draws them. Amounts are the manufacturer’s printed figures; Stacky has measured nothing and ranks nothing.
How it is recorded
What the app records so it can schedule a dose. None of it is advice.
Default food note in the app: with food.
Recorded interactions
How Stacky summarises what a named source says about Omega-3 taken alongside another substance: absorption and nutrient status only. The category and the summary are Stacky’s words; each row links to the source, and the source’s own wording governs. A row without one is not published, and neither is one whose source description names a disease or clinical condition. None of these says whether a combination is good or bad.
| Stacky’s category | Summary, in Stacky’s words | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Documented relationship with Vitamin E | The amount of vitamin E needed to prevent lipid peroxidation rises with the amount of polyunsaturated fat consumed, which is why many fish oil products include vitamin E. LPI notes that high vitamin E intakes have not been shown to lower markers of oxidative damage when EPA and DHA intakes increase, though some experts still recommend raising vitamin E alongside omega-3. Scope the source gave: increases with the amount of polyunsaturated fat consumed. |
Linus Pauling Institute Checked 6 Aug 2026 |
Indexed studies
A study reaches this page only if its own title names Omega-3 or one of its recorded alternative names, and does not name a disease or clinical condition. The second rule removes papers that are about Omega-3; a title naming a condition beside a substance reads as a claim, and this page makes none. Titles are the studies’ own words, newest first. A study being listed is not a statement that Omega-3 does what it set out to test. How this list is built →
| Title | Journal | Year | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Effects of Omega-3 fatty acids supplementation and resistance training on skeletal muscle. | Clin Nutr ESPEN | 2024 | PubMed 38777432 |
| Omega-3 fatty acid addition during pregnancy. | Cochrane Database Syst Rev | 2018 | PubMed 30480773 |
Showing 2 of the 5 papers indexed against Omega-3 in Stacky.
About this page
Stacky is a supplement tracking app. It renders what you take and what published sources say about it; it does not tell you what to take. Every figure on this page names the authority that published it and links to that authority’s own page.
Not on this page: a dose of our own, a grade, a verdict on whether Omega-3 works, or any statement that it treats, prevents or improves a condition. How these pages are built →
Figures are read from the authorities’ published tables and can go out of date when those tables are revised. If one here is wrong, tell us at support@stacky-app.com and we will check it against the source.