San Francisco News Anchor Eats Tuna
April 9th, 2012
Tuna, in our opinion, is still a good food choice given the fact it is nutritious, inexpensive and global fish stocks, with some exceptions, are healthy. Eat tuna with some thought. This lady deliberately went overboard on eating tuna, but the lesson is still a valuable one. My advice to people, particularly if cost is an issue, (as it is for most of us), is to at least supplement tuna consumption with canned Alaska salmon. Cold water fatty fish are so good for us! Cold water fatty fish, such as tuna and salmon are the first specific food ever endorsed by the American Heart Association because it has such a profoundly positive effect upon human health. At Pure Alaska Salmon Company LLC, we encourage the consumption of canned salmon at lunch because we have noticed that a canned salmon lunch makes for a better day all around, and we don’t get that terrible vampire-like craving for sweets at 4 o’clock.
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Red Salmon Versus Pink Salmon Versus Tuna
March 16th, 2012
What’s the difference between red (sockeye)and pink (humpback) salmon?
Sockeye Salmon, Look at That Unmistakable Color
Pink salmon is inexpensive; red salmon costs more. Red salmon flesh is actually red, and pink salmon looks more like tuna. When red and pink salmon are pulled fresh from the sea their flesh is, in fact, distinctly red or pink. The cooking process of canning reduces coloration in both. Red salmon gets its enhanced color from eating krill, a type of small shrimp. Pinks are the most abundant salmon, followed by reds.
Pink Salmon is Pink When Uncooked
Pink salmon, upon hatching, go directly to the sea, whereas red salmon spend over a year in fresh water. Red salmon need a lake or other large body of fresh water in which to grow. The largest red salmon run in the world by far is in Bristol Bay, Alaska, an area uniquely blessed with a system of saltwater bays and freshwater lakes. The world’s largest pink salmon runs are located in Southeast Alaska, which has a mild climate coupled with abundant rainfall, and thousands of short streams running from landfall directly to the sea.
Just Canned Red and Pink Salmon Out of the Can
Alaska is a very sparsely populated state with little polluting industry. Nutritionally, the two types are nearly identical, though pink salmon is listed by the USDA as having slightly more Omega-3’s than red salmon (1.7 mg per serving versus 1.3 mg). This slight difference may be limited to the samples tested, or it may have to do with the small oily fish that pink salmon sometimes eat. Though all wild salmon are extraordinary sources of Vitamin D, red sockeye salmon is the king with 795 IU per 3.5 oz serving.
Why is red salmon more expensive than pink salmon?
Supply and demand and a historic bias for red salmon account for the cost differential. We have done blind taste tests, and when people don’t know which fish they are eating, statistically they report a slight preference for pink over red. When tasters state a bias, they generally insist that red is best. We at Pure Alaska speculate that this preference was established in the days before boat refrigeration, when reds held up in the hatches of fishing boats far better than the more delicate pinks. Admittedly, pink salmon was not a very appetizing food back then. In the past twenty years the Alaska salmon-fishing fleet has invested in chilled circulating seawater fish holds, and this has vastly increased the quality of canned salmon. The salmon are pulled directly from the cold, clear waters and put into the fish holds where they remain until processed at the cannery – typically the same day. The quality of all canned wild Alaska salmon has increased immensely, but the lowly pink salmon has really been transformed.
Tuna vs. Wild Alaska Salmon – Alaska Salmon is the Hand’s Down Winner
Tuna is still a great food choice, far better than many other protein choices, in our opinion. Tuna is especially good compared to many other budget meat products. We at Pure Alaska Salmon Company LLC do not presume to enter into the controversies over frequency of safe consumption. There are definitely U.S. companies that sustainably harvest and process an excellent tuna product. We enjoy a good tuna sandwich ourselves.
That said, we offer this list of important reasons to consider canned Alaska salmon as an alternative to your familiar preferences. Wild canned salmon offers:
*Five times the health enhancing omega-3’s as conventional ‘grocery store’ chunk light tuna, and twice that of conventional ‘grocery store’ albacore tuna (USDA)
*Many times over the vitamin D as tuna (this depends upon whether we are comparing sockeye or pink salmon or Albacore or chunk light tuna)
*No (or negligible) detectable mercury,
*Flavor and appearance similar or better than(especially Thinkpink) first rate albacore
*Product of the U.S.A. that providing thousands of jobs at every phase of its production — in an environmentally friendly, sustainable manner
* Harvested at the last stages of the salmon’s natural complete life cycle
People find the more they use canned wild Alaska salmon, the more they use it. It is just a great source of protein, and is so easy to use.
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