There’s good news for your health-conscious but fish-phobic patients. Gold Circle Farms, a Boulder, Colo.-based company is now marketing eggs naturally packed with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), the longest-chain omega-3 “fish oil.” How’s that for “chicken of the sea.”

Taking advantage of the food-chain and the process of bioconcentration, Gold Circle feeds its cage-free hens an exclusively vegetarian diet rich in DHA-dense marine algae, the ultimate source of omega-3’s for all those oil-rich fish like salmon and mackerel.

The algae-fed hens concentrate the omegas in their eggs. Gold Circle claims each of their eggs contains roughly eight times the level of DHA in ordinary eggs, six times the vitamin E, and three times the vitamin B12. Two Gold Circle eggs give approximately 300 mg of DHA; four a week gives the DHA equivalent of a 3.5 oz chunk of salmon. Omega-deficient but fish-hating Americans can now get many of the antioxidant benefits of a deep-water meal, over-easy.

Of course, all this additional nutrition costs a little extra. A dozen Gold Circle eggs, distributed nationally in health food and specialty food stores as well as some supermarkets, costs approximately $2 more than your average factory farm eggs ($4.60 in our downtown Manhattan food store). But compared with the price of fresh salmon or tuna, the omega eggs still come out ahead.

Now, about those cholesterol lowering sausage patties …