Eating Fish is Good for Your Health, but These 3 Types of Fish Pose a Threat to Your Liver and Kidneys

While fish is known to be a healthy food choice, there are three types of fish that should be consumed in moderation to avoid potential harm.

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Salted Fish

Alongside grilled fish, salted fish specialty is also a favorite dish of many people. Salted fish is different from steamed fish, fried fish, or braised fish. It has a rich and less fishy flavor, and can be preserved for a long time. Especially, for coastal residents, salted fish is quite popular.

However, as we all know, salted fish is actually made by marinating fish with salt and drying it. Eating salted fish can be harmful to the liver and kidneys and is not good for health.

In addition, consuming too much salt can cause high blood pressure. Moreover, many cancer-causing substances and toxins are created during the process of marinating and drying the fish. So if you eat too much salted fish for a long time, it will have many consequences.

Therefore, the best way is to only occasionally have a meal of this type of fish instead of eating it regularly.

Polluted Fish

Some fish are caught in polluted water, have a foul smell, grow in wastewater and consume polluted water, and even contain harmful chemicals.

The meat of these types of fish will contain many toxins, which can cause stomach pain, diarrhea, and even extremely dangerous poisoning.

Therefore, when buying fish, it is best to go to reputable places to ensure the quality, and you should not buy fish from untrusted sources because not everyone knows where these fish are caught.

Rapidly Growing Farmed Fish

Not only in the cooking process, but also in the fish selection process, housewives should be aware. Specifically, we should not choose fish that are significantly heavier than the average weight.

Most of us mainly eat freshwater fish, sometimes you will encounter overweight fish, unusually large, even weighing 4-5kg.

However, you should be cautious with these types of fish because they can contain growth hormones and heavy metals. When consumed by humans, it will cause stomach discomfort, especially for children and the elderly, those with weak stomachs, it is best not to eat them.

Which Types of Fish Are Good for Health?

Carp

Carp is famous for being mild and nutritious, often used by pregnant women to supplement nutrients.

In Traditional Medicine, carp is believed to have a sweet taste, with balanced properties, abundant protein and vitamins, and has the effect of treating coughs, asthma, promoting milk flow, diuresis, relieving edema, stimulating appetite, and good for digestion.

For those who have water retention in the body, water diarrhea, jaundice, frequent dizziness, excess phlegm, high blood pressure, kidney failure, back pain, weak tendons, poor digestion, limb swelling, weak taste, carp should be added to the menu.

Tilapia

Tilapia is a type of fish with little fishy taste, it is very mild, with white flesh and low fat content. It is also one of the easiest fish to catch. Tilapia often tends to form large schools.

This is a very mild and less fishy fish. Especially in tilapia, there is a lot of Omega-3, known to produce DHA, an essential substance that plays an important role in brain development, enhances brain health, is good for the heart, and helps regulate blood pressure.

In addition, tilapia is also a good source of vitamin D for the body.

Snakehead Fish

Snakehead fish is a cheap but highly nutritious fish. In 100g of snakehead fish meat, there are 15.3g of protein; 2.2g of fat; 82mg of calcium; 18mg of phosphorus; 0.8mg of iron; 229mg of potassium, 4.7g of carbohydrates, and vitamins B1, B2; 2.8mg of Nicotinic acid; 2.65mg of vitamin E.

According to traditional medicine, snakehead fish has a warming nature, sweet taste, and is very good for people with headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, excessive phlegm, high blood pressure, renal failure, back pain, joint pain, weak bones, poor digestion, limb swelling, deficient taste, weakness in the spleen and stomach.

Common Carp

Common carp is one of the familiar and nutritious fish, containing many vitamins and minerals such as: Omega-3 fatty acids, protein, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, selenium, phosphorus, potassium, niacin, and pantothenic acid.

What is particularly special about this type of fish is that it contains a lot of protein but low calories and fat, and has the lowest mercury levels among fish species.

Every 100g of common carp contains 26g of protein and only 2g of fat. So this is a type of fish that is suitable for children over two years old, pregnant women, or breastfeeding mothers.

Catfish

Catfish, especially white catfish, is delicious and nutritious. In 100g of fish meat, there are 75.2g of water, 19.4g of protein, 185mg of phosphorus, 0.6mg of iron, 145mg of sodium, 263mg of potassium, 27mg of vitamin A, 2mg of vitamin PP, 1mg of vitamin C, B1, B2, 5.4g of lipid, 1.1g of ash, 15mg of calcium, … providing 126kcal.

Not only that, catfish is also rich in omega-3 and beneficial protein for health.

Above are suggestions for some delicious and healthy fish. However, you should choose reputable places to ensure that the fish is not contaminated or rapidly grown.

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