Best type of fish?

[Rinksterk**]

I'm trying to cut down on the pork and beef, and try to eat more bird meat and fish. I love fish. I especially like tuna but I sometimes get sick of it. I'm just wondering what yall think is the best fish.

I also like squid and octopus like fish a lot but I don't get that as much as I like. Is shellfish a good source of protein and for training?

 

[BackBrainKick]

shrimp is very high in cholesterol...tastes great, but probably not so good to eat all the time...

mussels are high in protein, and supposed to be real good for you...just learn how to cook 'em properly, cuz if you accidentally eat a dead one, you'll have some painful green-apple splatters and never eat them again...


...as for fish, I like mine individually frozen, like from Costco...mahi mahi is good, holds a bit of marinade and is firm-fleshed so it eats well; salmon, esp. cooked well done, so it makes a good crisp crust on it, good with some soy sauce; catfish, relatively inexpensive and great with a beer batter and deep fried...

 

[EffEweAll]

Don't eat anything that crawls on the Ocean floor. Unfortunately lobster's do this and boiled lobster with butter is great.

Farm raised fish are very bad for you. Polluted ocean is not helping fish.

Eat haddock sp? or Scrod grilled.

I dropped 40 pounds in 4 months eating grilled Scrod and Chicken Breasts everyday with nothing on it, but it gets boring real fast unless you have have a reason for eating clean.

 

[supersudo]

salmon has the most omega-3

 

[phenomfan1529]

salmon maybe?

 

[shanes]

ogange roughy is one of the best ,but be very very careful farting can be dangerious......

 

[Noskill]

salmon has the most omega-3

No. Mackerel is king of the omega 3 list:

http://www.annecollins.com/dietary-fat/fish-oils-fatty-acids.htm


Here you have a list of Top 10 fish and shellfish consumed in the United States (Mackerel isn't one of them) on omega 3 and mercury content.

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3013797


It has been noted that Mackerel tastes extra fishy but I think this brand is really great, especially the tomato sauce type:

http://www.johnwest.com.au/Products/IndividualProduct.aspx?id=77&idProductCategory=0&idProductType=5


All in all, I guess light tuna is best for protein content (not white tuna: this shit is loaded with mercury), mackerel is best for omega 3 content. Note that even LIGHT tuna is top of the mercury list in the link above though (Top 10 fish and shellfish consumed in the United States).

About kinds of tuna and mercury content.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040327/food.asp

 

[Sinister]

People freak out too much over mercury content. Typically the beneficial fats in the body far outweight the risks of mercury poisoning in even farm-raised fish. Especially considering essential fats are also of dire importance to brain formation in birthing children. It's very common to find that children with mental birth-defects are born deficient of fatty acids.

It should be weighed carefully of course, and still much like with any other meat, completely natural is the way to go.

 

[fat_wilhelm]

People freak out too much over mercury content.

That depends. I have a friend who's a small woman and she got mercury poisoning off of one can of tuna a day. This was after a couple months, I believe. If you're just a little thing, it's more of a concern.

 

[Noskill]

2 assumptions about mercury

1) Sardines must have pretty low mercury content because the mercury content adds up in the food chain.

2) I know people here swear through wild salmon, but I guess one thing about farmed salmon that's good is that it must have pretty low mercury content.

True that I wouldn't make mercury such a big deal, unless you're pretty small or eat a fuckload of tuna. Nevertheless, don't eat white tuna.

 

[GoRiders]

Salmon recipe that is fool-proof.

What you need: fillet of salmon, bbq, brown sugar, oranges, butter, tin foil, beers.

1. Crack beer and take a pull. Mmm...beer.
2. Take orange and cut it into thick slices. Thick!
3. Make little boat out of tin foil and lay thick orange slices on bottom. Place fillet skin side down on top of oranges.
4. Cover top of salmon with mix of butter and brown sugar.
5. Put this all on bbq.
6. As oranges start to cook their juice will start to fill bottom of tin foil boat. Start putting juice on top of salmon. Keep basting until salmon is done.
7. Sugar + butter + orange juice gives salmon an awesome flavour.

This recipe is killer and has never failed me. Originally from a salmon fishing camp on the northern shore of BC.

 

[Hudsn]

salmon

 

[unfknblvbl89]

Cod and Salmon

 

[Madmick]

Atlantic Salmon, Wild or Farmed.

Also, don't eat smoked fish more than once per week (if at all).

 

[Takezo]

Mercury???
Mercury is the reason why hat makers went crazy back in the old days. They used alot of it to stiffen the top hats. Thus the alice in wonderland "Mad Hatter", and the reason why I ate 25 plates of sushi the other day. The Mad Hatter was tight.

 

[Zeirhk]

Holy crap !!! Who said it was bad to eat farm raised fish !?! I'm currently eating TILAPIA fish which is, I heard very cheap because they are very easy to breed (and most likely farm raised).

Anyways, I like the taste of Tilapia Fish, aswell as White fish. But too many thorns with Whitefish.

 

[TSD-Bulldog]

People freak out too much over mercury content. Typically the beneficial fats in the body far outweight the risks of mercury poisoning in even farm-raised fish. Especially considering essential fats are also of dire importance to brain formation in birthing children. It's very common to find that children with mental birth-defects are born deficient of fatty acids.

It should be weighed carefully of course, and still much like with any other meat, completely natural is the way to go.

People should be more aware of mercury content, they aren't concerned enough. More than 2 cans of tuna a week can elevate blood mercury levels and some people will become symptomatic even with that! Agreed the fatty acids and the protein make fish a great source of nutrition, one should just choose fish on the bottom of the ocean food chain, mercury is highest in the predator fish.

In terms of the birth defects, pregnant women should not be eating much fish at all because of this very reason!! And this is not why a select group of newborns are deficient in fatty acids.