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“Thanks for the info. I hate the fishy burp.”

Cold pressed Hemp oil is very good and you get no fish burp.

Don’t those veg. acids have to be converted into O3s in the body?

But hemp oil doesn't contain much of either DHA or EPA.

Hemp oil does contain linoleic (LA) and alpha-linolenic (LNA) acids, which are the two essential oils in the human diet. The LNA in hemp oil is a precursor to DHA and EPA, however the conversion of LNA to DHA or EPA can be inhibited by bad fats (margarines, shortenings, trans-fatty acids, hard fats, sugar and cholesterol), lack of minerals (magnesium, selenium, zinc) and vitamins (B3, B6, C, E), viruses, obesity, diabetes, aging, and rare genetic mutations.

Also hemp oil, like most light plant oils, is quite perishable, so requires careful processing and handling. This is one reason why seeds, as is or freshly ground, are better than the extracted oils -- less chance of the oils going rancid. Chia seeds (aka Salba or salvia) and flax seeds are two excellent sources of these essential oils, and other nutrients.

Flax has more omega 3's and hemp more omega 6's. While an ideal diet would probably have somewhat more omega 6's than 3's (which is why hemp oil is marketed as having the ideal 3:1 ratio of 6's to 3's), our typical diets all have a great excess of omega 6's, so the focus can reasonably be more on getting more omega 3's than 6's (as can be found in flax oil), to bring things closer to a healthy balance.

Many common fish sources risk being contaminated with heavy metals, especially from the larger fish higher in the food chain such as shark or swordfish. Farm raised salmon, as opposed to wild caught, are likely to be much less healthy, in what they do, and do not, contain. The smaller fish, such as sardines, don't have the heavy metal problems. Krill, which is a main source of food for whales, is an excellent source of such oils, and does not risk heavy metal contamination, and is abundantly available, especially from near Antarctica.

Really fresh, carefully processed and handled fish oils should have little or no fishy taste.

There's no DHA or EPA in hemp oil. There are Omega-3s, but they are ALA, which are very inefficiently transformed into the others.

Putting them in the freezer really does work vs the burp.