What's the best Salmon to buy for nutritional value?

[70Ford]

Originally Posted by RickSantos

ONLY wild. It MUST be WILD.

I just whip mine from the river and eat it like a bear.

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[selhars]

I have read that:
-- you only want wild caught -- no farmed....but...
-- many times supermarkets mislabel FARMED fish as wild caught. So you could be paying 'wild caught' premium prices for stuff that really was farmed. A book I read said that the fish clerk at the grocery store only tells you, what he was told. And that doesn't make it true. If it's been mislabeled (intentionally or not) before it got to the store.

-- 99 percent of CANNED salmon is wild caught. Thank goodness. The farmed fish can't take the canning process (guess they get too mushy, because that haven't REALLY swum to build their flesh) -- so that's why CANNED is a sure bet for wild caught.

(The book, by the way, is "What to Eat" it's NOT a diet book. It's an expose on the food industry: processing, marketing, scams, safety, etc.. is organic better, why produce growers DON'T work together and lobby as an industry, when the beef, pork, and poultry people do work with other in their businesses, the fight over labeling milk hormone free, why the sugar industry tried to stop Stevia, is the FDA on your side, additives, etc

The book's chapters go through each section of the supermarket, eggs and dairy, processed, grains and cereals, bakery, meat, produce, etc. I read it years ago and it's in my library today. It was written by NYU nutrition professor Marion Nestle.)

[markymarc]

Salmon isn't as good for us as we've been told- loaded with polyunsaturated fats which we don't need more of but have been told are "essential".