Re: Can we discuss Fish pls?

On 20 Sep 2006 03:50:31 -0700, "Blueshark" <duncan10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What are nutritional up-sides and down-sides of eating fish?

Is there a preferable cooking method ?

As gentle as possible, meaning low temperature. Oven cooking in lowish
temperature may be the best. Avoid overcooking. Then there's of course
raw fish, for example sushi and gravad lax (salted raw salmon).

Farmed fish or Caught Fish?

Abosulutely caught fish. Quality of fish depends on what it eats and I
don't think that the stuff fed to farmed fish can produce as high
quality fish as caught fish. And farmed fish moves less than wild fish
may therefore have higher amount of saturated fats. Farmed fish has
also much higher arachidonic acid content than wild fish. Arachidonic
acid is a precursor of inflammation mediators and too much of it
promotes inflammation.

Does pollution affect the nutritional value?

It may, at least in certain areas, but in general benefits of eating
fish are much greater than the potential harmful effects caused by
pollution.

// I currently do not eat fish, but have done in the past. Would like
to know your opinions on it.

Fish is continuously discussed in this group and new benefits are
still emerging. I suggest that you search for the old articles in this
group and do also some web searches.


--
Matti Narkia
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