0% Polyunsaturated Fat in my canned Alaskan, wild salmon? page

[barryman9000]

How is that possible? Although I almost never check the "nutrition info" I just noticed this:

Bear & Wolf canned salmon from Costco:
- 3 servings per can
- 0g saturated fat
- 0g polyunsaturated fat
- 0g monounsaturated fat

If it's wild Alaskan salmon, shouldn't it have some PUFA (EFA's I mean, they're not packed in any type of oil).

[Stabby]

Yeah that would be most reasonable unless they have somehow managed to isolate the protein from the fat. Fish protein isolate? wtf that's creepy.

[rphlslv]

They probably drained the oil to make salmon oil pills... uh oh.

[Grol]

Good info here

Seems the labels need work but keep reading and you'll find your omega 3 #s.

[barryman9000]

Wow Grol, great link! So even though it's "wild" and not farmed, Pink Salmon is still a substandard animal, eh? Very interesting.

Any info on how it contains no PUFA if it's salmon?

I'll admit, the word "wild" in the title sold me. And I saw the Kirkland stuff but skipped it based on price.

[Grol]

I think the label is just wrong about pufa. :shrug:
The 325 mg of omega 3 is pufa...
You do have that little blurb on your can like the one in the link, right?

[maba]

Maybe it's like the transfat-free thingy, where if your per serving size has less than <0.5g of transfats, then they can list it as transfat free. Maybe this salmon has less than 0.5g of O3.

[TigerJ]

Whole Foods canned pink salmon reads (per serving):

Total Fat 5 gr
Sat Fat 1 gr
Trans Fat 0 gr
Total Carb 0
Protein 12 gr

This is a good fat ratio for fish, because it includes the skin. By calories of course 5 gr fat = 45 cals, 12 gr protein = 48 cals. Maybe yours has less sat fat if it doesn't include the skin, but I wouldn't worry about bad fats in salmon. C'mon wild salmon is one of the best things you can eat.

[barryman9000]

I think the label is just wrong about pufa. :shrug:
The 325 mg of omega 3 is pufa...
You do have that little blurb on your can like the one in the link, right?

Yeah, it's the same can

Whole Foods canned pink salmon reads (per serving):

Total Fat 5 gr
Sat Fat 1 gr
Trans Fat 0 gr
Total Carb 0
Protein 12 gr

This is a good fat ratio for fish, because it includes the skin. By calories of course 5 gr fat = 45 cals, 12 gr protein = 48 cals. Maybe yours has less sat fat if it doesn't include the skin, but I wouldn't worry about bad fats in salmon. C'mon wild salmon is one of the best things you can eat.

I wasn't worried about bad fat, I was just thinking that if there's Omega-3 (EFA, PUFA) then the fat content should show some Polyunsaturated fats. Unless, as Maba suggested, they're using the < .5g "rule" that nutrition info uses for Trans fat.