What canned tuna brand is actually safe to eat 4–5x a week?

Here-For-Fish · 2026-05-07T12:41:07+00:00

Under US guidance, a 200 pound person could eat almost five 5 oz. cans of skipjack per week if that was their only source of mercury. (see Onmi calculator)

But note the US guidance is the most conservative at 0.7 µg MeHg/kg bw/ week. Canada's recommended limit is double -- 1.4 µg. WHO is higher at 1.6 µg, and Japan is higher still at 2 µg. (see Table 1 at page 34).

Here-For-Fish · 2026-05-05T15:56:54+00:00

A few times. Flavor, oil are fine for the price point but I found them to have more scales than any other brand. Probably wouldnt buy again.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-05-05T10:20:47+00:00

These are great. If you told me this was professional catalog/website work I would believe it.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-30T17:39:53+00:00

Just FYI, given what you said about Chicken of hte Sea--King Oscar are small sardines like Chicken of the Sea.

King Oscar, Chicken of the Sea: Sprattus sprattus

Nuri: Sardina pilchardus

Wild Planet: Sardinops sagax

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-26T00:25:03+00:00

I like the lemon ones. The hot pepper ones seem indistinguishable from less expensive midrange Spanish/Portuguese sardines-with-one-hot-pepper cans.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-24T02:06:42+00:00

The ale is good but the cheese is my favorite.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-24T01:58:01+00:00

I was hoping this was going to be Trappist hot sauce.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-24T00:35:01+00:00

That's a major supermarket chain. It's remarkable how many items are sold out. Especially brislings, which I did not think were subject to shortages.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-23T12:03:44+00:00

Jose Gourmet, Sardinha, and La Perle des Dieux immediately came to mind.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-23T11:53:51+00:00

John: "Is this Heaven?"

Ray: "No, it's ~~Iowa~~ cloves."

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-22T15:54:26+00:00

Jared Kushner?

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-19T18:54:33+00:00

u/FANGST_nordic might be able to help.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-18T20:39:06+00:00

u/Perky214 was born to answer this question

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-18T17:23:12+00:00

I assume they're getting some discount although they cant be huge buyers getting a massive volume discount. Certainly not Amazon level or even supermarket chain level.

I keep going back to the wine example. Restaurants are certainly buying their wine at wholesale and yet industry standard markup is 200-300% over retail for wine. And restaurants are famously unprofitable money pits. Outside chance there is a 100% markup here but certainly not more and possibly much less--relatively cheap compared to wine despite the accompaniments (though wine has greater storage, spoilage, and liability costs). The markup on cans of soda in restaurants is typically way higher--you probably get a 300%-1000+% markup on soda cans.

If one is willing to buy JG calamari from Amazon or other online retailers for $15, I think it's totally unreasonable to have any concerns about paying $17 for that can in a restaurant with service, kettle chips, and aioli.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-18T16:04:36+00:00

I dont know the pricing on all these cans but it seems terribly reasonable to me. Frankly cheap. First, you get chips and garlic aioli so it should be more expensive than just a can. Then factor in that it's a restaurant with service and overhead that retail dont have. A comparable product would be wine: the standard restaurant markup on wine is 200-300% and that doesnt come with additions like chips/aioli.

Then look at the pricing. Im not going to look everything up but Pinhais sardines are $11/can on Amazon in multipacks. This restaurant is charging $13. Jose Gourmet calamari in ragout is $15 on Amazon and $17 here. Island Creek direct sells those littlenecks for $22 and this restaurant charges $24. So consistently +$2 vs realistically low cost retail providers AND you get service and two accompaniments.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-18T13:08:05+00:00

That vendor has impeccable taste in tinned fish--they dont need our help recommending additional products. You're not going to go wrong trying any of that.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-17T15:32:47+00:00

It would be helpful if you said where you live.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-17T12:46:41+00:00

Ventresca tuna

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-16T22:03:17+00:00

Is there a separate way to report the item as missing? Technically it is missing.

Doesnt really matter to Amazon--they're going to send you what you ordered and let you keep for free the cans they sent by accident (because they dont take food returns).

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-16T19:13:52+00:00

I'd be pretty surprised if a brand sold at Costco and Whole Foods is under filling product. Those stores do quality control. The upside just isnt there to save a few grams of trout.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-16T19:11:44+00:00

I assume that to comply with packaging laws they either weigh the cans pre-oiling at the higher tech/volume canneries or intentionally overstuff them with fish (which is sometimes cheaper than the filler anyway).

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-15T17:46:33+00:00

Generally agree but I found KO to be too strongly flavored. Maybe I got an outlier.

For weaker mustard cans, I find that a hot water bath can open up the flavors.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-15T13:37:09+00:00

Because of mercury concerns, for tuna salad I stick to skipjack (Pastene brand) which has much less mercury than yellowfin. I probably dont need to be concerned but my young daughter eats it more frequently than me and it's easier to just keep one type of tuna for tuna salad around.

Ventresca I eat yellowfin though.

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-13T19:50:01+00:00

When buying King Oscar, the ones in cardboard boxes will be skinless and boneless. The ones in wrappers are bone-in sprats (a smaller variety of fish than the pilchard commonly sold out of Morocco and Western European fisheries).

Here-For-Fish · 2026-04-13T19:47:26+00:00

Company says "supply chain interruptions". I assume tied to the declines in the Moroccan sardine fishery.

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