Ingredients: Pieces of skipjack tuna, corn, beans, onion, piri-piri pepper, olive oil, lime juice
Country of origin: Portugal
Not all fish is healthy to eat often, watch out for mercury in cheap fish!
Due to the absence of the sea, Czechs have never been used to eating fish and other seafood often. However, in recent years, there has been a big boom in fish consumption and the general opinion has become established that the more fish we eat, the healthier we will be. Otherwise, the certainly correct demand of experts in healthy nutrition that people eat as much fish as possible looks different when we realize that by consuming this food we get a significant amount of mercury into our bodies. Fish, especially sea fish, are even the most important source of this toxic metal for the human body.
We can blame ourselves for mercury in fish
Marine fish concentrate mercury in their tissues, which humanity releases into the oceans in large quantities. According to research by American scientists from the University of Connecticut in Groton, however, the problem of mercury in fish meat does not only concern marine fish. On a global scale, the vast majority of mercury enters the sea from the air. Rivers, groundwater, sediments or even mountain springs, therefore also contain mercury. Organic mercury compounds are also contained in fish living in inland waters. American researchers remind us that we must take into account that mercury will remain in the environment for decades after we limit its sources. In Europe and America, a significant reduction in mercury emissions has already occurred, on the other hand, this reduction is offset by the industrial boom in East Asia.
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