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How often is "ok" to eat tuna?

AKNMHunt
AKNMHunt Posts: 168 Member
edited February 19 in Food and Nutrition
I LOVE tuna and could eat it daily. Also makes for good lunches when I have no clue what to eat.

Is there "too much"?

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  • kayduro
    kayduro Posts: 249 Member
    I've never heard of any adverse effects from eating too much tuna. But then again, I hardly consume it. Have you tried Googling?
  • kayduro
    kayduro Posts: 249 Member
    They actually have a tuna calculator on this website: http://www.ewg.org/research/tuna-calculator

    Hope that helps!
  • AKNMHunt
    AKNMHunt Posts: 168 Member
    They actually have a tuna calculator on this website: http://www.ewg.org/research/tuna-calculator

    Hope that helps!
    Apparently I can have 2.5 cans a week!
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    I have nothing to add, but I once ate a can of tuna in front of a poster session about methyl mercury levels in various froms of tuna at an international meeting...
  • felonebeats
    felonebeats Posts: 433
    I was eating three tins a day for about a year
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    I was eating three tins a day for about a year

    you don't have a uterus or working mammary glands, so you can eat a lot more without it negatively effecting anything...
  • lindsyrox
    lindsyrox Posts: 257 Member
    I'm eating tuna right now. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the pouches you can get now. Only 70 calories and a bunch of protein. I add them to pretty much anything I have for lunch, today its a salad. I eat about 3-4 pouches a week sometimes.
  • lautour
    lautour Posts: 89 Member
    I didn't know tuna is dangerous?
  • Cycle_pathic
    Cycle_pathic Posts: 172 Member
    I generally eat Tuna for lunch every weekday and have been for several years. Apparenty I've been exposed to so much mercury, I should be able to accurately tell the temperature in my immediate vicinity....
  • caveninit
    caveninit Posts: 153 Member
    I read that American and Canadian albacore (chunk white) is the safest as it has the lowest level of mercury.
  • RUNNING_AMOK_1958
    RUNNING_AMOK_1958 Posts: 268 Member
    The reason why you're not supposed to eat a lot of it is because of the mercury content. I love tuna also and there is a solution. Wild Planet tuna. Expensive but we'll worth the money for us tuna lovers. http://www.wildplanetfoods.com
  • felonebeats
    felonebeats Posts: 433
    I don't know about all this Mercury poisoning stuff but I did develop a twitch that year
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    wild salmon has lower mercury and still lots of omega 3's, but the fat is a little higher overall in commercial varieties.
  • nolabone
    nolabone Posts: 117 Member
    I eat tuna at least 5 days a week. I crave it constantly. So good.
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