How to Select a Black Seed Oil product?

How to Select a Black Seed Oil product?

Well, you certainly want an oil that has thymoquinone, since that’s the most important bioactive!

But there’s a lot more to it than that.

Thymoquinone exists in a delicate balance with another compound in black seed oil: free fatty acids. Free fatty acids—present in all edible oils—have a nasty tendency to oxidize, generating free radicals.

High amounts of free fatty acids interfere with the ability of thymoquinone to do its magic; if free fatty acids are too high, there’s more oxidation and more free radicals, severely limiting the effectiveness of this important bioactive.

The ideal black seed oil product is a cold-pressed oil from high-quality plants grown in ideal conditions, meeting the standards of the USP (United States Pharmacopeia) and having a correct balance between thymoquinone and free fatty acids. One particular ratio— 3% thymoquinone with no more than 2% free fatty acids— has been found in published research to be effective and a patent was issued for just that ratio.

Products that meet the USP standards and have the ratio that’s been shown to be effective in the research are listed below