Consumer Reports is out with a new study about mercury in canned tuna fish, and the news isn’t good.
According to the report, “Consumer Reports tested five popular brands of canned tuna for mercury: Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, StarKist, Safe Catch, and Wild Planet. We tested two varieties from each brand, albacore and light/skipjack. We found a wide range of mercury levels between types of tuna as well as among different brands.
“Our testing found that albacore has much more mercury than light/skipjack tuna, regardless of the brand. The albacore cans had three times more mercury, on average, than light/skipjack. While mercury levels in our test were higher in albacore than in light tunas, some brands had a much larger variation than others.
KC’s View:
I guess the good news is that I don’t eat much canned tuna … just on those rare evenings when nobody else is at home, and I make myself pasta al tonno.
It is even better news for anyone ordering tuna fish sandwiches at Subway, since evidently they don’t use real tuna fish anyway.
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