Fish Flavored Fish
Charlie the Tuna goes pharma. Here come "flavoring compounds".
"As stocks of ocean-caught fish dwindle in the face of overfishing and environmental changes, farmed fish has flooded the market, helping to meet our growing appetite for seafood. But one sector of the seafood industry has remained elusive. Fast-food restaurants, which serve hundreds of millions of deep-fried-fish sandwiches every year, have always chosen wild species over farmed ones, because the flavor is better.
But now even these piscean purists may start buying from the farm. This spring, after 10 months of testing, the aquaculture company HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries created what it calls “sea-flavored” tilapia, the first farmed fish manipulated to taste like a wild fish. “It met 10 out of our 10 taste parameters.”
"As stocks of ocean-caught fish dwindle in the face of overfishing and environmental changes, farmed fish has flooded the market, helping to meet our growing appetite for seafood. But one sector of the seafood industry has remained elusive. Fast-food restaurants, which serve hundreds of millions of deep-fried-fish sandwiches every year, have always chosen wild species over farmed ones, because the flavor is better.
But now even these piscean purists may start buying from the farm. This spring, after 10 months of testing, the aquaculture company HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries created what it calls “sea-flavored” tilapia, the first farmed fish manipulated to taste like a wild fish. “It met 10 out of our 10 taste parameters.”
posted by patootie at 7:34 PM
3 Comments:
My head is spinning LOL.
I must support aquaculture if it's done correctly (which many operations aren't). So, I may have to try to find some fish flavored fish...
"Flavoring Compounds". Yum.
You know, in my idealistic little mind, I figured it would be a specific type of food they would give them to enhance the flavor.
Of COURSE it's just chemicals applied to the flesh, duh.
yuk
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