Mercury from canned fish

[maccaz]

Anyone had any actual issue with high mercury from eating canned fish?

 

Iv been eating a lot of canned tuna and salmon because its super cheap and convenient. workmate asked if im not worried about dying from mercury poisoning.

 

thought hadn't crossed my mind and i know a lot of people eat a lot of it for protein so i think prob nothing to worry about, but is there a guideline on how much you can safely eat? 

 

atm on an average day il eat 1 or 2 85gm cans, and sometimes (eg yesterday) a 380gm can over a couple meals.

 

googled it and theres big variation in what limits are recommended

 

one i just found said 4oz/115gm = 18% of maximum weekly mercury. if thats correct i better cut back

[Rebel101]

I could be wrong but I thought that the mercury present in the canned fish was actually in the fish.

There is a concern that commercially farmed fish may be fed on products that contain mercury, and the fish accumulate that mercury in their flesh.

If this is the case then you need not be concerned about the fact that it is "canned" fish, but rather the source of your fish.

There are advocates that say the only safe fish (free of mercury) is that which is harvested from the sea.

[maccaz]

I could be wrong but I thought that the mercury present in the canned fish was actually in the fish.

There is a concern that commercially farmed fish may be fed on products that contain mercury, and the fish accumulate that mercury in their flesh.

If this is the case then you need not be concerned about the fact that it is "canned" fish, but rather the source of your fish.

There are advocates that say the only safe fish (free of mercury) is that which is harvested from the sea.

 

oh nah i know the mercury is in the fish, higher in food chain = higher mercury content i thought, just personally i eat canned tuna. maybe il look into source but given its the cheapest protein source i know of apart from whey i can't imagine its going to be wild caught lol

 

tbh i wouldnt bother eating fish if it wasn't real cheap, its perfectly edible but prefer meat.

[BeastBuilder]

To be entirely honest bro I think it's one of those things that got blown way out of proportion, and people love having something to complain/whine about so they jump on the bandwagon quoting an article they read in Woman's Weekly..

I went through a phase when I was on a mad budget of having like three cans or so a day, medium cans or like one or two big cans just cos it was so cheap to help hit protein targets. By their maths I would have been having like 500%+ of my weekly allowance so I should be dead by now. Also I think it wouldn't be like one second you kicking it and next your dead, you would probly feel like ass for a bit and could adjust and if you felt better then hey maybe you were overdoing it but I doubt it would come to that off a couple cans a day.

No science etc to back this up just common sense.

I would compare it to how by BMI I should be dying of heart/organ problems this year or next apparently.

Okay Lab Coat Wizards, whatever you say.

[maccaz]

I would compare it to how by BMI I should be dying of heart/organ problems this year or next apparently.

Okay Lab Coat Wizards, whatever you say.

lol on that note, i have a medical coming up for work sometime in the next month. im sure the bmi thing is going to come up, dont care though doubt they will fire me for being fat

[Polo]

Is it actually tuna in them cans? Makes me wonder how some brands can sell it for $1.

[maccaz]

Is it actually tuna in them cans? Makes me wonder how some brands can sell it for $1.

cheapest i found is $4.21/kg if you buy the coles smart buy ones in water(aus)

on the ingredients nothing dodgy i wouldnt say a big chain store like that would risk making fake tuna filler? lol dunno 

[Pseudonym]

I don't eat tuna any more.

 

Partly it's because of the mercury (it doesn't matter where the fish was wild or farmed - the issue is that it's big and old and had a lot of time to accumulate mercury, and being at the top of the food chain it also eats the combined accumulations of everything underneath it). Having said that, that's just the theory - I don't know how big a problem it is in practice.

 

Partly it's because canned tuna tastes like crap.

 

And partly (mostly) it's for environmental reasons. Even though canned tuna is generally skipjack and not as endangered as bluefin is, no tuna stock of any species is particularly abundant. Because of the nomadic lifestyle of the fish, it's extremely hard to get an accurate estimation of how bad things actually are. So until we know for sure, I feel like the responsible thing is not to make it worse.

 

 

 

Unfortunately, I can't find the actual movie anywhere (I'm sure it used to be on Youtube) but here's a few clips if you're interested...

http://endoftheline.com/videos

[RESURRECTED]

Canned Tuna in olive oil...hmmmmmm

[Dinahlady]

Ask the doctor, but I doubt it's a real worry. I feel like the kind of people who worry about it are those that put buying "free range" ahead of their gains... 

[Slow n Steady]

Here's another article on canned food in general - will give you "man boobs" or abnormal chest growth apparently. No need for chest day then ?

http://www.menshealth.com/health/chemical-man-boobs

[Bruce Al]

You'll be fine with small fish likr mackerel and sardines. It's the long living fish some people worry about. It's all good, I eats heaps of tuna and I'm crazy as.

[FUBU]

I can't eat seafood. I just take omega softgel capsules to get my daily intake of fatty acids. It's a shame I can't eat it seafood, cause all the people I know of that eat seafood as their main source of protein have solid dense looking muscle. 

[Pseudonym]

all the people I know of that eat seafood as there main source of protein have solid dense looking muscle. 

Really? 

[FUBU]

Really? 

LMAO! My bad. I was meant to say the bodybuilders I know of.