I am sitting here pondering. If I could have a food for the rest of my life, what would it be. For me it would be a tuna

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39. Deb - Avoid albacore tuna - go with light tuna or skipjack

Deb - Consumer Reports says to only have one to three (four oz servings) a week because of mercury in tuna. Way less for children and pregnant women - if any!


(In their tests, Albacore has 3 times more mercury than light tuna because it’s a bigger tuna)

How Worried Should You Be About Mercury in Your Tuna?
CR tested canned tuna from Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, StarKist, and other popular brands. Here's our advice for pregnant people, and everyone else.

Because so many people eat tuna, and because of its potential risks, CR tested five popular brands of canned tuna for mercury: Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, StarKist, Safe Catch, and Wild Planet. We found a wide range in mercury levels between types of tuna as well as among different brands. Light and skipjack varieties, for instance, contain much less mercury on average than albacore tuna. (Note that the type of tuna in pouches is the same as what’s in cans, but we did not test pouches.)

One big takeaway is that albacore has much more mercury than light or skipjack tuna, regardless of the brand. That’s not surprising, since albacore is larger and lives longer than the tunas that make up the light tuna or skipjack tunas. But the disparity was quite wide: The albacore products had three times more mercury, on average, than the others.

That albacore has more mercury than light tuna is well-known among scientists and seafood experts, but CR’s recent survey found that it may be news to the average consumer. About half of Americans said they did not know that different varieties of canned tuna have different levels of mercury. And 18 percent said that they didn’t know that canned tuna has any mercury at all.

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/how-worried-should-you-be-about-mercury-in-your-tuna-a5041903086/