I believe Kroger Value fish is just a selection of fish that they were able to get a deal on at the time they purchased the fish from their suppliers. You can always email Kroger to find out.
Dr. Murad says, 'fish such as tuna and salmon, can contain high levels of mercury and other contaminants, so you should eat these infrequently'.
The Food Standards Agency recommends that we should eat at least two portions of fish a week. Pregnant and breastfeeding women, and those of childbearing age should eat no more than two portions of oily fish a week.
Here's a list of Dr. Murad's Best Choice of fish:
abalone(farmed)
anchovy
bigeye (troll or poll caught)
catfish (farmed)
caviar (farmed)
clams (farmed)
cod (Pacific)
crab (spider)
halibut (Pacific)
herring
hoki
mackerel (ONE OF MY FAVOURITES!)
mussels (farmed)
oysters (farmed)
salmon (canned, wild caught Alaska)
sardines
sea bass (line-caught, farmed)
shad
shrimp/prawns (trap caught)
squid
sturgeon (farmed)
tilapia (farmed)
trout (rainbow farmed)
Fish to eat with caution:
clams (wild caught)
cod (Greenland)
crab (brown, pot caught)
lobster (pot caught)
mahimahi
mussels (wild caught)
oysters (wild caught)
Pollack
Salmon (wild caught Pacific)
sand dabs
scallops (bay farmed, sea)
shrimp (brown or wild)
sole
tuna (skipjack, yellow fin, line-caught, canned)another favourite of mine
Fish to avoid:
caviar (beluga, osetra, sevruga)
cod (Atlantic)
lingcod
monkfish
orange roughy
rockfish
salmon (Atlantic farmed)
sea bass (trawled)
shark
shrimp (imported)
snapper (Pacific)
sturgeon (wild caught)
swordfish
tuna (bluefin)
This list was published in 2007; not sure if anything has changed since. Either way if you have the fish on the avoid list once in a while it won't harm you, so long as you aren't pregnant or breastfeeding... which may harm the baby.
I think it's fine to eat the fish you already bought. I would suggest next time you buy fish try to stick to the best choices list. It's hard for me because I love yellow fin tuna steaks, so I have that about once a week or every 2 weeks.
Last edited by Taurie; 03-29-2010 at 06:46 AM.
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