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09.29.2015
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Expert explains that the importance of acquiring a well-preserved fish and how to identify the quality product
Rio - Frozen, fresh, dried or canned, more and more consumers are looking for convenience when choosing products that will be part of your daily diet. The concern of a healthier diet aligned to the convenience and time savings, grows the need for clarification of manufacturers and retailers to consumers.
Knowing how to choose foods and keep them until the time of its consumption makes all the difference to ensure a healthy and safe food. Do we all know to do this?
The expert Mario Quintarelli explains to the reader Maria Antonia which the importance of acquiring a well-preserved fish and how to identify the quality of product on the market.
By Marco Quintarelli
QUESTION AND ANSWER
I'm very suspicious about buying frozen fish. I prefer to buy fresh fish for my family, I think healthier. But a friend told me that frozen fish is "safer" and better for consumption. What do you say?
Maria Antonia, Osvaldo Cruz
Many wonder if the quality of frozen equals fresh fish. I can assure you it is. In some cases, purchase frozen is better than buying some "fresh fish."
Everything will depend on when this fish was caught and stored since. If this had proper handling and is properly exposed, can be considered fresh and safe for consumption. Many said fish "fresh" are being exposed for sale in stores for over a week.
This whole process also applies to frozen fish. If it is frozen immediately after killing or fishing, stored in temperature to -25 ° C and exposed also in freezers at -10 and -18 ° C, the nutritional quality is guaranteed.
We can not guarantee the quality of all fresh or frozen fish available in supermarkets and fishmongers River is the ideal, but we have to check and monitor so that your choice is correct.
For fresh fish, gills moist and staining between live pink and red, skin and firm flesh, moist and spotless, bright, bulging eyes and a slight odor sea views. Avoid the steak or fish already cleaned and headless. Many were manipulated as they were already "old" display.
Do not buy frozen fish is thawed at point of sale. Also avoid those with ice crystals, this demonstrates that it was thawed and refrozen. See if it is "glazed" (with a smooth ice film on all around) and give preference to those that have been frozen by the IQF form, which is an individual fast kind of freezing and which facilitates you to use the fillets, the or put the whole fish individually.
Source: The Day
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