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To: Question Liberal Authority

A 3oz Catfish fillet has about 0.3 grams of Omega 3. 70% more would be a total of 0.51 grams. Not bad but I’d rather eat another ounce of Catfish. I eat about 4-5 Salmon fillets a week and they can range from 1.1 to 1.9 grams of Omega 3.


39 posted on 02/14/2010 10:40:49 AM PST by trashcanbred2
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To: trashcanbred2
Whoops. I made an error. I was comparing a cup of egg to an ounce of tilapia.

A 6 ounce tilapia filet would contain about 360 mg Omega 3.

A farmed catfish filet contains about 732 mg Omega 3. (Wild is slightly more).

A carp filet contains about 1535 mg Omega 3.

1/2 of a salmon filet (about the same size portion as a full filet of the other fish), contains about 4,961 mg omega 3 (farmed) or 3,996 mg wild. Why farmed salmon gets such a knock by the press I have no idea.

A single egg contains about 61 mg omega 3, though there are varieties now which contain upwards of 300 mg, due to the diet of the chicken.
41 posted on 02/14/2010 10:55:00 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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