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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by QuantumAphid on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:26PM (#20003592)
Canned mackerel generally has mercury at levels near that of salmon.

King Mackerel is known to contain a lot of mercury, but that is a different species of Mackerel which is quite large (in general, larger predatory fish have greater concentrations of mercury).

As long as you are eating the tinned Mackerels, the kind which are small like sardines, I don't think you have significant mercury risk. Canned/tinned mackerel and sardines are considered some of the safest and most sustainable fish you can consume.

https://www.csu.edu/cerc/researchreports/documents/MercuryFa...

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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by x2f10 on Friday May 24, 2019 @02:20PM (#20004021)
Thank you! I plan to buy some after work. I want to try to incorporate fish into my diet. Final question: raw or cooked? Does cooking deplete some of the good stuff inside?
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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by QuantumAphid on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:08AM (#20030127)
Cooking usually changes some of the vitamin/nutrient content, but honestly if you like cooked fish, cook it. If you prefer sushi/sashimi, go for that. With diet try not to let perfection get in the way of obvious improvements. I could get way more nutrients by eating liver raw, but y'know, um no thanks.
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