CANNED TUNA : marks to avoid !!!

Salad, sandwich or pasta, opening a can of tuna is one of the simplest and fastest ways to eat fish regularly. But the gesture is really beneficial to health, we must choose good quality products. Then pay attention to not be fooled. In-depth analysis bringing together nearly 130 seafood (canned, terrine ...), the magazine 60 million consumers submitted 15 cans of tuna canned in natural histological analyzes of the flesh and juice, as well as 'measures to their contents of different metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, tin, chromium) and bisphenol A.

Composition, type of ingredients, heavy metals ... After analyzing 130 seafood including 15 canned tuna, the magazine 60 million consumers shows that the best quality is not necessarily offered by the major brands .

Canned which all contain mercury, arsenic and cadmium

The 15 preserves are all more or less contaminated by metals All contain at least mercury, arsenic and cadmium but at very variable concentrations according to the references.

 The most contaminated as the Odyssey (Intermarché). The least that of Leader Price. The good news is that bisphenol A was not found in the analyzed products. If health authorities are vigilant on the metal content of consumer products it is because at high doses can be toxic to the central nervous system and carcinogenic. In the composition of tuna cans, the magazine explains that new references contain no edges have three core fragments, and traces of oocytes (Cora). This is not forbidden but harms the quality of the product that is supposed to contain pieces of nets.

Leader Price in the lead, while Leclerc bottom of the table!

Here palmares established by the magazine from the amount of metals and quality fish, more satisfying at least satisfactory:

• Leader Price - Yellowfin tuna: 18/20
• Carrefour - whole Yellowfin tuna: 18/20
• Nice (Lidl) - Yellowfin tuna: 17.5 / 20
• U - Whole tuna pole and line caught: 17.5 / 20
• Auchan - Solid White Tuna: 17/20
• La Belle Iloise - Albacore: 17/20
• Small ship - whole Yellowfin tuna: 16.5 / 20
• Constable - Albacore red label: 16.5 / 20
• Reflets de France (Carrefour) - White tuna developed in Britain: 16/20
• Captain Nat '- Albacore caught cane: 16/20
• Odyssey (Intermarché) - Yellowfin tuna: 13.5 / 20
• Casino - Yellowfin tuna: 11.5 / 20
• Cora - Yellowfin tuna: 9.5 / 20
• Hot sauce - whole Thon: 6.5 / 20
• Ocean Fishing (Trade Mark - Leclerc): 6.5 / 20