Fish oils contain long chain fatty acids with equally long names like docosahexenoic acid dha and eicosapentaenoic acid epa dha and epa are essential fats that cannot be made by your body so consuming them through foods like salmon and supplements such as the optimum nutrition fish oil softgels is the only way to get dha and epa better yet fish oil softgels are enteric coated which means that you get all of the benefits of fish oils without the fishy aftertaste that you might encounte