I don't think Silk provides enough daily allowance in one serving.

Silk has per serving : 1600 mg ALA and 32 mg DHA
recommended daily in-take (woman) 4.g ALA to convert into a daily energy need of omega-3 which is roughly 1.1 g for a woman (for example: 1 tbs of flax seed gives you 4 grams of ALA)

so with Silk, it's only providing 1.6 grams of ALA vs 4g recommended, and only 32 mg of a fomed omega-3 when you are being asked to produce 1.1g for energy consumption.

My kid just doesn't eat walnuts and greens and no algae (he's 3), soy doesn't offer enough ALA, I cook with olive oil but he doesn't eat enough sauteed vegetables yet and no salad dressing......... so that's why I would want a supplement to cover the daily required. At least until his diet is more well rounded.

So anyone have a supplement that they like?

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OK,. I thought about the daily recommended doses, and why different diets would cause the dose amount to vary, and the idea of food combining and foods inhibiting other foods (from breaking down, absorbing etc) made total sense to me that you would then have different daily requirements. At first it made it sound like we vegans got omega 3 and essential fatty acids probably pretty easily from our food choices, but that we required less because our bodies like were a storehouse for it so we didn't need so much every day. Talk about over thinking but it's been that kind of day!

He does eat walnuts and nutritional yeast, so I will have to try that Parmesan trick. I never have used flax seeds, because I don't like the taste of the oil, so maybe I should try grinding???

Dang, how fine to have to grind it for a kid to digest it? Sounds like potential gas problem?