Types of Fish
diontre840
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What types of fish are good to eat besides Salmon? I used to eat Tilipia but I heard it was bad for you. Is it true?
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The only fish I eat is tuna. I love to have a good tuna steak.0
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I don’t know if Tilapia is bad for you but it tastes like dirt to me, so yea, bad!7
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Haddock and Cod are good too - Salmon and these two are the main fish I buy. (Also have canned tuna - strangely enough I have never had fresh tuna, yet lol)1
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catfish, flounder, halibut, shrimp, sardines, smelt3
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ElizabethAN2017 wrote: »Haddock and Cod are good too - Salmon and these two are the main fish I buy. (Also have canned tuna - strangely enough I have never had fresh tuna, yet lol)
No ahi? No sushi, spicy tuna roll?! You are missing out my friend.
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ElizabethAN2017 wrote: »Haddock and Cod are good too - Salmon and these two are the main fish I buy. (Also have canned tuna - strangely enough I have never had fresh tuna, yet lol)
No ahi? No sushi, spicy tuna roll?! You are missing out my friend.
Thanks, I will have to give them a try
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Cod, catfish, halibut, walleye, trout, etc. are what I eat regularly.2
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Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »I don’t know if Tilapia is bad for you but it tastes like dirt to me, so yea, bad!
^QFT. Tilapia wins the "most disgusting fish" award IMO. Yuck.
I prefer my fish/seafood raw (tuna, salmon, albacore, yellowtail, sea bass, eel, sea urchin, sweet shrimp, salmon roe, etc.) as sashimi or sushi, but for cooked fish I like salmon, pollock, cod, halibut, tuna, shark and swordfish. And although they're not technically 'fish', I also love crab, shrimp and lobster.7 -
Tuna
Flake (shark, I believe)1 -
Haddock, Sea Bass, Mackerel, Bassa, Plaice, Trout, Cod
These are sold in my local supermarket and I eat them from time to time.1 -
Marlin, Kingfish, Billfish, Shark, Mahi Mahi, Swordfish, just to name a few more.1
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The problem with tilapia is that they are usually bred in Asia. They live in to small tanks thay don't get cleaned often. Also on top of that the feeding the fish gets is usually very poor (quite often pig feces). This makes the macro and micro nutrient profile of tilapia quit bad (not much nutrients)5
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Any kind of fish is good... personally I prefer monkfish/ cod/ haddock/ prawns.1
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Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »I don’t know if Tilapia is bad for you but it tastes like dirt to me, so yea, bad!
^QFT. Tilapia wins the "most disgusting fish" award IMO. Yuck.
Agreed, I love most fish, but won't eat it. I've heard it's fish for people who dislike fish, since apparently it's considered super mild tasting, I don't know, I've always found it just unappealing.
I'm with you on sashimi, and I'll add raw oysters, and for cooked my favorites are clams, shrimp, salmon, trout, halibut, cod, tuna steak (but not canned tuna), mackerel, and really too many more to mention. Also an anchovy fan. I had a bad experience with catfish that turned me off it, but I suppose I'd revisit if someone I trusted prepared it.1 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »I don’t know if Tilapia is bad for you but it tastes like dirt to me, so yea, bad!
^QFT. Tilapia wins the "most disgusting fish" award IMO. Yuck.
Agreed, I love most fish, but won't eat it. I've heard it's fish for people who dislike fish, since apparently it's considered super mild tasting, I don't know, I've always found it just unappealing.
I'm with you on sashimi, and I'll add raw oysters, and for cooked my favorites are clams, shrimp, salmon, trout, halibut, cod, tuna steak (but not canned tuna), mackerel, and really too many more to mention. Also an anchovy fan. I had a bad experience with catfish that turned me off it, but I suppose I'd revisit if someone I trusted prepared it.
I don’t like catfish either but I had an appetizer called Salt and Pepper Catfish from Vietnamese restaurant. No bones, deep fried, nicely seasoned, it was delicious!
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Grouper is a delicious fish baked or broiled. My favorite is stuffed grouper from Lucky's2
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I eat a lot of seafood so I try to eat wild caught on the low end of the mercury scale. I eat seafood almost everyday.
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OP, eat all the fish if you like it.
I think Marlin has the highest concentration of mercury so only eat Marlin once a week.
I am a very fussy seafood eater and I think Tilapia is disgusting. The one time I prepared it, it was tough and stringy. Fish! Never again.
I like Haddock and Cod as mild tasting fish, I drizzle with lemon juice and spices and bake it in parchment just until it flakes.2 -
Isn't tilapia the fish of choice if the person preparing/selling the fish knows that the customer doesn't really care about the fish and wants to go cheap? It sounds much fancier than cod or haddock even if it is anonymous at best. A lot of cheap places or large scale food processors in the US use it for fried filets since it's so small that it cooks very quickly and the customers buying those items really just care about the breaded coating anyway.
Whereas a processed fish stick (usually cod or haddock) might actually be a better product, the fact that the tilapia can be sold as a whole filet allows for a price premium.0 -
My only concern on tilapia would be that it's almost always Chinese/Vietnamese (where environmental and food safety regulations and enforcement kind of suck) - so a potential for heavy metals and other contamination from industry. (Other than it being pretty blech taste and texture-wise).
Fish closer to the top of the food chain will concentrate mercury and other heavy metals more so than the fish lower down on the food chain. And wild caught versus farmed, and location of origin will have an effect. Macros will also shift based on these as well (Different salmon species have different fat content for instance, and supposedly may vary for farmed versus wild caught).0 -
Two more good white fish (light texture) I poach in milk or white wine with herbs and a bit of salt:
Pacific rockfish http://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/groups/rockfish?type=pacific-ocean-perch&location=domestic
Petrale sole
http://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/groups/sole?type=petrale&q=Sole, Petrale&t=Petrale sole0 -
In for the sushi.
I don't like farmed fish, more because I don't like the current farming techniques and the impact on the environment and wild fish. So no farmed salmon for me. Wild are great. Fix the farming process and I would consider farmed, but they are a bit more fatty.
Never tried tilapia and sounds like I never will.
Rainbow trout is very much dependent on the lake. Caught and cooked a big one (5ish lbs) that tasted like mud. Have had some that were good. For the most part I throw trout back.
Kokanee (landlocked salmon) are tasty and in a lake 20 minutes from home.
Can't catch them anymore but Pickerel/Walleye will always be my favourite fish to both catch and eat.
Biggest trout for me was ~9 lbs. Catch and release lake.
Biggest fish for me was ~100 lbs. Need to go catch Sturgeon again. That's fun even if you can't eat them.2 -
Halibut is my favourite. Costco have bags in the freezer of portioned steaks - not very cheap but really good fish and good quality. I also like tuna steaks and get those fresh or frozen wherever, but don't cook much other seafood at home or eat much in general actually.1
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I limit my intake of bottom feeders because of concerns about Mercury and other heavy elements that settle on the bottom.0
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The problem with tilapia is that they are usually bred in Asia. They live in to small tanks thay don't get cleaned often. Also on top of that the feeding the fish gets is usually very poor (quite often pig feces). This makes the macro and micro nutrient profile of tilapia quit bad (not much nutrients)
I am never eating tilapia again!!!! I love tilapia but never again.2 -
crisma1974 wrote: »The problem with tilapia is that they are usually bred in Asia. They live in to small tanks thay don't get cleaned often. Also on top of that the feeding the fish gets is usually very poor (quite often pig feces). This makes the macro and micro nutrient profile of tilapia quit bad (not much nutrients)
I am never eating tilapia again!!!! I love tilapia but never again.
Find out the source of the fish. If you like it and it is sourced locally (not in Asia) it may be perfectly fine.2 -
Sturgeon rules.
Just about any sushi is also right up there.
Good with salmon, halibut, trout and catfish.0 -
Silentpadna wrote: »Sturgeon rules.
Just about any sushi is also right up there.
Good with salmon, halibut, trout and catfish.
Sturgeon is right up there with Bald Eagle or Snowy Owl....
Yeah, not allowed to eat them where I can catch them.0
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