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My son will be starting preschool soon and I am trying to give him 1/2 tsp. of cod liver oil per day to help boost his immune system. Every time I try to give it to him, he spits it out. I've tried hiding it in his morning rice cereal or putting some on sliced apples or mixing it with rice and peas and nothing. He gets a hint of it and spits it out. Anyone have a delicious food or smoothie recipe that can hide the flavor? The brand we have is Green Pastures Blue Ice "unflavored" Fermented Cod Liver Oil. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
My daughter has been giving "lemon" oil to her son for a couple of years, and he actually likes it. She uses Carlson brand, and the lemon flavoring does a remarkably good job of masking the fishiness.
Fermented Cod Liver Oil? Isn't it bad enough? LOL- I use the dropper from the kids tylinol and use Cherry flavored- an all natural- no colors. My son loves it! Sometimes he takes it from a spoon if Momma takes hers first! ;) I know it comes in lemon and mint flavor as well. Make sure it is from cold water fish!
we buy Metagenics DHA LemonGels from our chiropractor and my daughter just pops one in her mouth, sucks out the lemon oil and then spits out the gelatin capsule.
Hi. I have had my son on fish oil since he was an infant and we have tried many kinds. Nordic naturals makes the most pure and safe fish oils. Right now I have my son taking the nordic lemon capsules. I cut open two capsules and shoot them right in his mouth! no time to spit it out! It tastes ok. Very lemony a little taste fishy. Not too bad. I always give him a tiny piece of dark chocolate afterwards so he associates his vitamin with a yummy treat.
Goid
Maybe you can try putting it in some apple sauce with a little bit of cinnamon to mask the taste. Or you may want to switch to Omega 3 supplments instead. Nordic Naturals has one for kids that is lemon and strawberry flavored.
Kids are usually natural supertasters (the effect wears off in most people, but not in a few of us... I can not only tell you whether honey or sugar was used in bread, I can tell you what KIND of honey or sugar. It's a useful thing with wine -I can place a glass on a particular slope on a particular year by the same vinyard... but it's a terrible curse for things like cod liver oil). To simulate what he's tasting... try to hide 2-4 TABLESPOONS of codliver oil in something.
It's almost impossible. It just makes everything else taste like rotting fish. Rotting fish flavored milkshake/smoothy was my personal vomit inducing combo. Fish flavored icecream is just intolerable. Karo Syrup works to a limited degree, but was the best of any I found. Still quite nasty, however.
But once you find out what will hide 2-4TBs for YOU, then you've gotten your answer.
Cod liver oil is a hard thing to hide!
Does your son like fish by any chance?
My kids actually like fish, kipper snacks, smoked salmon, etc.
Maybe try getting him used to some of that good tasty stuff so that the fishiness isn't so off putting.
Fish is fish and I can't think of a good way to really hide it. Especially 1/2 a teaspoon of it.
Best wishes.
I would probably mix it in with scrambled eggs.
It's hard to hide that smell and taste though. So I also recommend just eating the real thing, eat fresh fish. My kids love fish.
Or can he swallow a pill yet? If so, then buy it in the pill form in the future and you finish up the liquid. Even the kids chewables don't do a very good job at hiding the taste, so I can't recommend that source.
I give my kids a teaspoon with a toothbrush and toothpaste ready to go, so that they can brush their teeth right after. Or recipes that call for olive oil, like pasta coated with olive oil, I tried that but it was gross. Mine is lemon-flavored, though. I also put it in orange juice but that made the juice all oily and gross.
