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Skipjack Tuna in brine has mercury?

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MihaiM

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Hello,

I'm on a low carb diet for weight loss and to meet my daily protein I was eating mostly canned Skipjack tuna in brine which is cheap and easy to eat and has lots of protein, 24 grams per 100 grams. I recently found out that Tuna has mercury and you could get mercury poisoning from it? I was eating like 3-4 tuna cans of 100 grams per day until I found out this. How much tuna per day/week is it safe to eat to not get mercury poisoning?
 
MihaiM said:
Hello,

I'm on a low carb diet for weight loss and to meet my daily protein I was eating mostly canned Skipjack tuna in brine which is cheap and easy to eat and has lots of protein, 24 grams per 100 grams. I recently found out that Tuna has mercury and you could get mercury poisoning from it? I was eating like 3-4 tuna cans of 100 grams per day until I found out this. How much tuna per day/week is it safe to eat to not get mercury poisoning?
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Skipjack tuna has the lowest mercury content but also has selenium which counteracts the effect of mercury in the body. But even so it suggests that 2-3 times a week together with other low mercury fish would be OK. A bit of Googling will give you what is known/suspected.
It is better to have different sources of protein so you also get the benefit of a variety of vitamins and minerals and other nutrients.
 
Hi,

We also read about the Mercury content so i have one can a week.
 
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