Monday, April 2, 2012

Fish to Eat and Fish to Avoid


Fish is very important part of our diet, and thus the choices of fish to cook and serve to the little one are even more significant. So here is the simple list of the fish to eat and fish to avoid:

Fish to Eat:

  1. Albacore Tuna
  2. Salmon (Wiled caught, Alaskan)
  3. Sardines (high in Vitamin D)
  4. Oysters (high in Iron)
  5. Rainbow Trout (farmed)
  6. Freshwater Coho Salmon (farm raised USA no antibiotics)

Fish to Avoid:

  1. Bluefin Tuna (endangered spices, hi in mercury)
  2. Chilean Seabass (hi in mercury, no more than 2 times per month, and children no more than 1 month)
  3. Grouper (endangered and high in mercury)
  4. Monkfish (endangered)
  5. Orange Roughy (lives over 100 yrs, so high in deposits of mercury)
  6. Farmed, Atlantic Salmon (high in antibiotics). 

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