Why Americans Fell Out Of Love With Canned Tuna
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ค. 2024
- While traditionally, canned tuna was known to be a staple in American homes, consumption rates have fallen dramatically in the past couple of decades. Since 2000, per capita tuna consumption dropped 45.7%. That’s largely due to shifts in consumer preferences, but also a larger awareness around the industry’s steep market consolidation, issues around sustainability and transparency, and a major price-fixing scandal that lasted for years. In 2015 and 2019, Bumble Bee and StarKist were fined $25 million and $100 million respectively by the Department of Justice. Still, in 2020, the U.S. imported about 637.9 million pounds of tuna, 71% of that canned, the most of any country in the world. The industry is dominated by a few multinational conglomerates, the largest being Thai Union Group, also the owner of Chicken of the Sea. In 2020, the industry saw a significant rise in canned tuna demand, fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic as Americans turned to this affordable, protein-rich food. However, that rise has since gone back down.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
02:00 - Tuna industry
04:39 - Thai Union Group
07:05 - Controversy
09:07 - Tuna’s challenge
Produced by: Darren Geeter
Animation: Christina Locopo,
Senior Managing Producer: Tala Hadavi
Camera by: Victor Febres, Michael White
Additional Sources: Law360, World Wildlife Fund, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, U.S. Department of Labor, “The Industrialization of Fisheries,” George Kent, 1986, The Brookings Institution
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Why Americans Fell Out Of Love With Canned Tuna
I can save everyone 13 minutes of their life: Cost, cost is why we 'fell out of love' with canned tuna.
You're doing Gods work.
God bless you!! 😂
Thank you 🎉
No, mercury. Not worth eating at any price. Look at that warning on the can for "pregnant mothers" and then look up what mercury is.
Thank you Mr. Hamster.
I stopped buying canned tuna about 15 years ago. I saw the price double and then double again, the can shrunk by about 15% to 20%, and the quality of the tuna fell off the cliff. The tuna went from 'chunk light' that were actual chunks to 'chunk light' that were little more than mushy scraps. As a bad deal all around, I stopped buying. It really is that simple.
Even more simple is the high mercury content. Just look up mercury poisoning. Ask your doctor to test for mercury at your next physical. You may be surprised. Most "big fish" have high mercury content.
@@hewitcMercury content in tuna will vary according to species and according to the fish's age. Solid white will typically have a higher mercury content than chunk light. If you fear mercury content: stay away from swordfish.
@@hewitc It's not so much how big the fish is, but rather how high up the food chain, as methyl mercury bioaccumulates. Bigger fish tend to have a higher Hg content, but it is not a rule of thumb.
Tuna is practically decomposed by the time you open the can.
@@philipb2134 I agree. But for shorthand, a big fish like halibut is higher in heavy metals than smaller fish. If you get a reference list of fish that are safe to eat it's easier to remeber the few that are OK. And it's not just poisonous mercury. Cadmium and other toxic stuff gets in them. We stick to sole for now. Absolutely no tuna.
Tuna used to come with tuna oil but you can sell tuna oil in capsules so they siphoned the tuna oil from the tuna and replaced it with vegetable oil or water. They also pack the cans with the tiny scraps making the tuna more mush than meat. They've engineered things to extract ever dollar possible and as a consequence they've stripped tuna of much of its goodness.
Did not think of that dang
It’s actually just like cat food now. Think about it
@@dh5380 There are still a few brands that offer better quality and although they are a lot more expensive the quality of the other brands is just dreadful so I pay the premium.
This is because the tuna population is crashing worldwide.
So Many "MisRepresentations" in this "Report", maybe YOU ought to be Fined some Millions of $$ for Sappy, Uncritical Reporting.
Around 2000 the cans went from 6 oz. down to 5 oz.
Then the tuna went from solid chunks to mush that looks like floor sweepings.
The main reason people quit buying canned tuna was because no one wants to open a can of tuna and find a can full of tuna fiber slurry.
If i wanted a can of tuna byproduct i would have bought a can of tuna byproduct.
Not buying tuna from any brand that advertises "Chunk tuna" but when you open the can you get tuna slurry.
I used to eat the albacore. Bought it by the case. White solid tasty. Now its brown and slimy. Wont buy it anymore. Cats wont even eat it.Totally disgusting. Been like that for 2 years
Perfect reply
RIGHT ON - TUNA BEGAN TO LOOK & SMELL LIKE CAT FOOD THAT ENDED IT FOR ME OVER (20) YRS. AGO! GROSS!
Cost is what drove me away from tuna. I started eating tuna heavily in college because it was good and cheap, that is no longer the case
Bingo. On a relative basis, tuna is expensive.
Nailed it!
One of my go to’s for quick easy solutions. Now it’s far from thought as it’s way over priced! Lol 😂 what has them thinking the scraps in a can could even compare to that used for even “zushi” or sushi 🍣
Ok
👏👏👏👏 No one wants to buy tuna if it’s expensive. Two for dollar and they will be the biggest food in the globe. Like expensive tuna or French fries?
Exactly. Always thought canned tuna was suppose to be low quality tuna or leftover tuna or whatnot and was just canned and be sold for cheap because they weren’t sure what else to do with it.
They aren’t talking about mercury in the fish. USDA suggests to eat tuna once a week to avoid too much mercury.
Yes, cost wasn’t my main reason at all. It was all about the mercury concentrations.
Tell that to those island people who eat only fish all the time.
New study’s show that mercury is beneficial for brain function and cures all forms of insomnia
@@steelearmstrong9616seriously?? lol
@@nattysam94 try it drinking a glass of mercury and you will see how good it is for you
I was a tuna fisherman before 1980. I still eat canned tuna but buy the most expensive can. The expensive can is near what canned tuna use to be. The 99¢/can tuna you fine in the grocery store, in my day, was sold as cat food. Tuna like almost all other ocean species is overfished. The migration patterns are changing because the Tuna are searching for the small fish they normally eat. But small fish like herring are overfished, too. They're probably less than 5% of their historic numbers. As they become harder to find industrial fishing fleets are catching Krill - small crustaceans eaten by small fish up to some whales. Up to 200,000 tons are caught yearly. So the whole ocean food chain is starving, scrounging for food.
The brands you think of as home brands are owned by foreign companies. The have no connection to America, UK, or other countries where they originated. They don't care if local fishermen or cannery workers have a job. Only profits. China alone probably has more fishing boats than the rest of the world combined. And they don't appear to have any standards or limits on the species or numbers of fish that can be caught. Chinese fish the open ocean around the world and off everyone's coast. They fish coastal waters where they can get away with it or their government can browbeat the locals. Most American West Coast salmon are caught in Asia. Salmon cross the North Pacific to Asia as part of their migration. Less than 10% of the salmon return. Many runs have fewer than 1% returning to spawn. It's all fixable, but we need to start with allowing the small species to expand their numbers. We want whales to come back. What will they eat?
99$???? A can of tuna????? Cat food???? Do YOU know how much a can of anything cat food costs????? Here is a revelation - way more than 99$
@@bambinaforever1402 99 cents. that is a cent symbol, you use 20 question marks and ended up adding so little. Their comment was insightful in many ways beyond the first sentence and what you think cat food costs.
I mostly stopped eating canned tuna because the quality dropped dramatically about a decade ago. There's weird stuff floating around inside the cans that used to not be there. The flavor profile changed too. And bone fragments started making their way into the product. And the price went up. The product today on store shelves is far worse than it used to be and is more expensive as well.
Same here, nothing worse than a bone in your tuna and it feels like every other can has a bone in it. Plus yes the flavor has gotten worse, and the overall quality has gone down.
Tuna is covered by a Standard of Identity - specifications supposedly enforced by the Feds. It's been years since I bought a can of "chunk light" which met the legally mandated standard.
😂 Retorted tuna (the process of canning) makes the bones completely fall apart. It's not only perfectly safe but the minerals in the bones are good for health.
@@orilion1820 That is unlikely for most species of tuna. It does not hold true for albacore /the only species recognized by FDA as "white meat". Neither does it hold true for yellowfin, nor for tongol, nor for skipjack, nor for euthynus . There are other species which legally can be designated as "tuna" in the US, but they are commercially insignificant. Why do I know this? Because it used to be my job. Come back if you have something to add. I will wait for you in the tall grass.
@@philipb2134 I retort fish for a living. What are you arguing here? You didn't state an opinion contrary to or refute my comment in any way. ESL? I'll help you out. What in your opinion is "unlikely" from my comment?
Tuna's about $1.20 where I live. Mercury's more of a concern than price.
That's awesome! Up here in Canada I've seen it selling for $3.99! CDN but still! :)
Illegal catching: Most tuna and other fish from Thailand are illegally caught in neighboring Myanmar water.
Mercury is higher on my list of cutting back, no more than two cans a week, more like maybe one for me.
I live in SC USA...I buy ALDI brand..."Northern Catch"...Chunk Light Tuna in water for $0.69--$0.79 a 5 oz can respectively over the last 5 years. Currently its $0.79 a 5 oz can as of Feb 2024. It is actually cheaper than canned cat food.
Corn syrup is high in mercury but its not of concern
Pity. This stuff got me through college when I was a starving student. My fav recipe is tuna salad:
1 can of tuna
1 tablespoon of mayo (more if you like it creamier)
Half a can of canned corn (water based)
1/6 head of lettuce
Pinch of salt and pepper
Canned jalapeño slices
Tostadas and Cholula hot sauce 🤗
Would you like some more salt with that salt?
Sounds more like a jail meal or slop should I say…
I sometimes make this style for a nice change. I add like juice so I can cut down on the mayo and omit the salt.
Sounds good.
Sounds great! The college cafeteria potato bar saved me.
A couple of years ago, my husband and I discovered TONNINO brand of Tunafish in good tasting Olive Oil. We regularly eat this Tuna with chopped Green Onions, a little Horseradish and sometimes Capers. No bread or crackers...just Tuna. Delicious
50 years ago, regular canned tuna was flaky and had big chunks. Now, regular cans of tuna are tiny shavings that mush down when you try and mix it up with mayo. Yuck! That's why I don't buy it anymore. I've even tried high cost tuna that was supposed to have bigger chunks, but even those are small flakes and shreds. It's like they're selling the nicer pieces to another industry and leaving the garbage for canned tuna buyers. Such a shame.
It's watery and is basically mush in a can. You could barely do anything with it, because even after getting rid of the majority of the oil or liquid it is packed with, the fish content itself is so mushy that it ruins your recipe. Plus, over the years, canned tuna went on to developing a metallic taste to it.
Lastly, the quality of canned tuna went down, but the cost of it shot up. The nerve!
I haven't noticed any metallic taste to it
@@EngineVSEngine Lucky for you!
@@EngineVSEngine some brands do have it but Im with you not all have that taste
Well, you guys are obviously buying flake tuna. If you purchase whole white tuna, you’ll get an entire solid chunk with hardly any water.
@@Eric_In_SF yea could be walmart kmart or any store brand is not the bets but its cheap which is whta most people go for on a budget
Like others, I stopped eating it mostly because of higher prices and lower quality. I've also been trying to cut down on my consumption of methylmercury.
Anyone whose mom made tuna noodle casserole growing up knows DAMN WELL why they don’t want tuna.
I'm sorry but I just loved tuna casserole on Friday nights!
🤣🤣
all casseroles are gross but tuna casserole sounds super nasty
I stopped eating it because of the mercury and high prices
The tuna that goes into cans isn't mercury concentrators.
@@obsidianjane4413really ? time to get a can 🤗🤤
@@obsidianjane4413 "Potential downsides. The two main concerns when it comes to tuna are mercury content and sustainability. There are also some potential downsides to canned tuna specifically, including fat and sodium content and the safety of the can itself."-Healthline Nov 6, 2020
@@thecptpiratemonkeyDon’t believe that. Canned tuna absolutely Is a mercury aggregator. Chunk light has less mercury than albacore, but canned tuna DOES have mercury in it
Now eliminate those other 100 sources of mercury from your food. Good luck.
And since 2000, the size have been shrinking. In 2000, it was 7 ounces a can. Then it was 6 ounces. Then 5 ounces. I've seen some at 3-5 ounces now.
The problem is that we are getting less tuna, while the price increases.
and the quality has been going down hill regular tuna is extremely bland to the point that you can taste it
Because we overfished.
Imagine someone talking about 80s price in early 2000. That is your logic. How do you pay for the rent compared to 2000???
Shrinkflation
@@sebastian3004 I said nothing about price. I'm talking about size.
Everyone know prices will always increase.
The texture of canned tuna makes my skin crawl…it’s like chewing on wet cotton balls. My mom used it fairly often when I was growing up, adding it to mac & cheese, along with frozen mixed veggies, for a cheap & easy dinner. And of course tuna sandwiches in my school lunch bag. But now as an adult, I haven’t eaten it in years. The texture really bothers me, along with how expensive it’s gotten.
I only eat sardines and anchovies, basically small fish when in I read about mercury content in fish in the 90s. Haven’t eaten any tuna since.
They dropped a can of tuna to about 5oz that's barely a sandwich. Can't make tuna salad for more than one person with that. The light tuna is like scraps in a can. The price is crazy.
The problem is he just gave us the numbers and it’s $2000 for 2000 pounds up from $1700. So the cost of tuna has gone up, roughly 3.5 cents per can yet they have doubled the prices and blame it on the cost of fish. It’s still a scam.
And just so many people who are saying that I’m not associating, fuel prices, and other costs, please be aware that when the canning companies purchase fish per pound, they don’t then get a separate bill for gas and handling. The price of the fish includes all associated costs. This is a scam.
I think you're forgetting a good amount of the cost. Is the processing, packaging and transportation.
yes fuel has doubled under Briben
Like everything else in this economy, they blame cost increases - which they have gone up across the board, but in almost every industry they have taken advantage of this excuse and overshot those costs with their new prices. When you look at the tuna markets profits, its a vertical line, and their projections into 2030 continue this same vertical growth. Keep in mind these are the "profit" graphs, not overall revenue.
@@TheDigitalThreat Take into consideration all the food stamps floating around. This has a big impact on cost because stores have a guaranteed 40-50% income there.
That's is the price they paid when the fish is in Thailand. To ship it over, that takes money. Not only that, the labor rates has gone up because the money value has gone down due to inflation. Most of the cost is in labor. Processing the tuna also requires energy and the plant needs electricity. Did you see the price of energy lately?
Even after the tuna is canned and shipped, the supermarkets need to transport it to the shelf and pay employees to stock the shelfs. Everything cost money. I'm surprised its as cheap as it is right now. If you had to do it yourself, that can of tuna would be around $100 a can.
As a Bostonian i sometimes forget how good we have it for seafood. You can still get live fish and lobster at the docks in the seaport.
Yeah but you also get libtard Dem politicians. So there's that.
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Why was there no mention of the mercury content in tuna? This has scared many away from it.
What I heard is all tuna has mercury, but solid white albacore has 4-5 times
as much mercury as chunk light. So eat chunk light, but not often. Good
news is chunk light is cheaper too. No tuna has the quality it once did.
It now has the same quality as the tuna used in cat food.
Meow . . . @@user-xy7lf1tx1d
Thirty years ago down in Mexico I was snorkeling in a large bay, (Pacific Ocean about 1/2 mile out) and saw two large creatures coming right at me from a long distance away. They were near the surface and going very fast (almost like two torpedoes aimed at me) I then saw that they were two Tuna fish about 6 to 8 feet in length. They split me, one on each side, at high speed. Then they were gone. Wow it was thrilling to see these magnificent animals. In a pair, curious as to me, showing phenomenal athletic skill the experience left me breathless. I still love Tuna.
That must have been amazing. I’m glad you had such a cool experience.
And if they ran into you they coulda killed you lol
@@Smokey298 At least they spared your life. But humans dont.
they are fast powerful eating machines !! sounds like an amazing experience
A big thing for me was the quality of the canned tuna, it became catfood quality
I feed my cat very high quality food. I wouldn't give him human tuna.
Oh 😸
thats bad make sure theres no salt but its juat not healthy for cats
@@ihcuwign1707 i just meant it looks like cat food, dark and mushy rather than white solid chunks.
@@zyxw2000 thanks for lining my pockets, sucker
Now that the Japanese released radioactive water into the Pacific ocean, the possibility of eating radioactive tuna is a real concern for me.
They said don't worry be happy, After you eat radioactive tuna you might glow in the dark and some hair might fall out but its almost safe to eat . ya like once every ten years.
stopped eating it about 10 years ago. Yes, the price was going up, but what really did it for me was the taste. Tried different name brands, but all were going down on quality of taste, so I switched over to eating more sliced turkey.
Try Wild Planet tuna. It's excellent.
Regardless of cost or any reasons discussed in this video, it’s the extremely high MERCURY and heavy metal content that pushed me away.
I eat roughly a small can a week & think about this often.
also they probably have a high microplastic content
Same. I used to eat 1-2 times a week. Now maybe once a month.
Yes, yes.
Here I am thinking to myself: " hmmm I haven't had some tuna salad/sandwich in a while" I guess that has to continue because if Americans are complaining about cost increase I prefer not to check where I live because it would be most likely 2-3x more for me.
ike many other foods , price and quality are horrible
I live for Tuna. Tuna that is swimming in mayonnaise. I am 61 years old and still awaiting my first heart attack.
I buy a lot less canned tuna than I used to for one simple reason: the quality of basic canned chunk light tuna has plummeted, making it a complete waste of money, even at 75¢-$1 a can (looking right at you, Starkist, Chicken of the Sea, Bumblebee, and all the store brands).
I love canned tuna and I end up buying the really pricey brands because they are what Starkist used to be (by “used to” I mean the 1960’s-80’s). And because they are really pricey , I don’t buy nearly as much as I’d like to. I’d eat tuna every day and never tire of it if I could afford to.
What drove me away from tuna was having to much in my diet that mercury and microplastics became a concern.
Ironic, but I have found many "house branded" canned tuna to be far superior to the nationals... The name brand ones more often are like opening a soggy mass of wet sawdust, with about as much flavor. Many also add soy to maximize $, and boy does it show. Only canned tuna I like are the Italian brands packed in olive oil and salt.
Rio Mare?
We maintain a stock of Costco's "Kirkland" brand of water packed, solid albacore tuna, and find it is a price competitive (with other tunas or fish or protein) sources. The quality (and taste) has been maintained over the fifteen years or so w have been buying it (or the equivalent, "cheap" albacore offering). I have always found tuna a bargain, from back in the 1960s (when I used really cheap oil-packed bonita) up till today. The "quality" problem today is that people's expectations are set by the seared ahi offered at better restaurants. Which is very good, if you like more-or-less raw fish, but is only so-so if cooked throguh.
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I only buy solid white albacore. Anything else is just tuna-flavored sawdust.
Why would you add soy to tuna? Wtf is wrong with Americans? Why must they destroy something healthy with yet more soy?
The price fixing scandal should keep everyone away from tuna. The executives of those companies deserve much more prison time than they got!
Probably the higher prices, but for me it was about all the fear put out on high mercury levels and how we have to really limit the tuna we eat due to mercury poisoning.
I love tuna 🍣 too!
Japanese canned tuna by Hagoromo is delicious and tastes fresh (for canned tuna) and probably ranks as the best since it's bluefin or bonito, but it is pricey. Canned tuna from Spain (Ortiz) and Italy (Cento can be found anywhere in the US) are also top notch and like the Japanese brands they do not smell tinny or fishy just clean and savory. They call come in flake or chunks and the chunky ones are simply the best! You can eat these straight from the cans without seasoning or mayo even.
Cento is not italian
@@lore00starit’s a brand started in Italy, by an Italian, selling Italian products. How can it be LESS italian
Thank you for the info.
This is the info that people combing through comments section look for. Gold! So thank you.
Those Japanese animals are the reason why tuna will be extinct one day, including dolphins and whales.
The quality of canned tuna went downhill after the 90s. I'd open it to find too much red veins and scales and stuff in every can. I now get the most expensive jarred tuna, and it's worth it. The $7.50 jar at least has clean quality meat, and there's enough for two meals.
Albacore or “solid white” is my favorite, but the regular cheap skipjack tuna is good too.
Walmart sells the skipjack cans for $1 for 5oz.
I’ll have to try the jarred tuna that you mentioned.
And tuna don’t have scales, must be something else you’re finding.
hes making it up
@@DePalma.
@@waynebayer3144 lol…I’ve never tried the fancy jarred domestic tuna, only the jarred Italian brands
That's when corporations started becoming obsessed with timing their employees and demanding more and more results in shorter and shorter time spans. The quality of what a worker produces doesn't matter any more. All that matters is the quantity produced in least amount of time possible. Taking pride in one's work is a concept that is becoming more and more foreign to people. Workers on timers can't afford to worry or care about the quality of their work. They are too busy worrying about meeting the unreasonable quota per hour set for them because if they don't meet it they are out of a job.
Amen to that.@@auntbutton905
Why, you ask?
Price: A can of chunk light tuna in water went from 79 cents a can to almost $4 a can in the last five years.
Quality: "chunk light" used to mean actual chunks of fish--now you get what is basically tuna paste.
I've been a professional piano tuna for 30 years and I still love it.
That post sounds fishy! 🐟
CUTE!
The North Atlantic tuna, called in Spanish "Bonito del Norte" which is caught with a line, is a delicatessen. In Spain it is normal to find it either fresh, during the summer, or canned in olive oil. Spanish canned fish are of exceptional quality, from simple sardines in tomato sauce, pickled mussels or anchovies in olive oil.
When I was a child my aunt got us Spanish tuna from a trip she had to Spain. It looked very different as the can was way bigger than the typical cans we had in the Middle East or have here in North America, but I swear to God that I never ever had tuna that good in my whole life. I still remember how delicious it was 35 years after having it!
i know exactly what you mean, it's godly
As someone who lives in Portugal, I totally agree. Spanish tuna, sardines, mackerel and shellfish are all great. So are Portuguese brands, especially those from the Azores. Wouldn't touch the mutilated, cheap, industrial food from the USA with a bargepole and that is by no means limited to tuna.
It's a delicatessen? What the hell?
@@michaelweir995 theres canned tuna which is cheap-ish and bonito del norte is like super fancy, more expensive canned tuna (that usually comes in bigger chunks)
Ever since the early 90s when they started releasing the dolphins caught in the nets the tuna doesn't taste as good as it used to. 😂
😂😁🤣
What I'd like to know is why I used to like tuna back in the 70s but now, I can't find a brand that I like.
Meanwhile where I live right now, canned tuna culture is thriving. It’s dirt cheap and if you get tired of one flavor, there’s a dozen others that comes in different variety of cooking styles: tuna in variety of oil (olive oil, corn oil, soya oil) tuna in tomato sauce (Neapolitan style, San Marino style etc), you got Chinese style with five spices, another Chinese style with Szechuan style, (My favorite is Mapo Tofu style but Tuna). Another type is fried in oil and black beans. You got Japanese style that has ranks based on cut (Maguro, Otoro etc.) various Japanese style tunas with a variety of regional miso types or dashi stock. We even got Corned Tuna. We also got complete rice meals with tuna bits in can. It’s wild!
Not one mention of heavy metal contamination, even to debunk it. What's up with that?
It's not contaminated from the can or processing. The heavy metals are in the ocean and accumulate in top predators over their lifespan. It then accumulates in you and the more you eat the more youll have in your body. Eat young fish if you're worried about it.
because you cannot debunk it
140g to 160g can of tuna is about $2.00 in my country, where the avg salary is $12K/year and the min salary per month is $600... A whole chicken is about $5.00. The math is not mathing and now has turned into a luxury rather than a must have.
Nothing makes me happier than watching a video detailing the slow but certain downfall of a corrupt and cruel industry. I haven't bought tuna in a can for decades -- it's nasty. Keep it up Gen Z and Millennials!
Yes, the cost makes it a terrible solution when it was once an excellent deal for protein when money was tight. I'm still a sucker for a Tuna Fish sandwich (I don't know why, probably kid memories), but like many things, that's now a treat while I eat Soylent Green - or Soylent Orange on a fancy night! 😅
I don't know if manufacturers get it, but once things are too expensive for too long, they become "grey'd out" like an online form. I don't even notice them anymore as they are kind of "dead to me." I haven't had bacon in almost a year because I just won't pay that price, and you know what - I'm now okay with it. People will walk away (not all) and forget about you.
Interestingly, I had a cat (which she's since passed away) that would eat most any brand of canned tuna EXCEPT Bumblebee. That right there made me avoid that brand. Of the canned tunas, I've found that Kirkland seems to be the best quality. I certainly will try the new brand that was mentioned in this video, though.
mercury? other contaminants ?
3:58 The Portuguese method Wild Planet ones?
@@rcud1 Animals has more acute sense to detect contaminants.
i think she read the Ingredients
Bumble Bee makes Kirkland tuna...
Perhaps for your next report, you can discuss how chinese fishermen are destroying fish stocks around the world through overfishing and illegal practices.
No. Its easier to blame "climate change" because you can't push an agenda with illegal Chinese fishermen. People will then claim CNBC is racist.
Doesn’t fit the narrative. Won’t be shown here.
Only Chinese. Overfishing is a world wide problem and not unique to to one nationality
@@bruceevennett955 wrong, they went to argentina and fish the heck out of their shore. that's a really long distance don't you think?
I love how we have an over supply of tuna and the price remains the same but he says prices will increase because of demand; yet demand didn’t decrease prices years before.
The only US branded canned tuna I buy is Genova yellow fin tuna.
It has been analyzed by Consumer Labs to have least in mercury. The contents are decent and delish in olive oil.
The other tinned seafood I eat that is textured and flavor profile is like tuna- boneless skinless sardines from Morocco. Delish in olive oil.
i agree, but i go for the genova yellowfin because it actually tastes good. the genova albacore is ok, but not as tasty as the yellowfin.
Jason Genova makes the best tuna indeed
We're living in Soylent Green times...
The crux of that movie was that all sea life was exhausted by 2019, and other sources of protein needed to be found to replace it... you know the rest.
Other things I've noticed:
Canned shrimp, the 1/4" type, is getting scarce and hard to find.
Dried (dehydrated) shrimp, usually from Mexican brands, has changed drastically.
Previously headless, tailless and about 3/4" to 1" was very common style to find, yet since around the mid 2010s it disappeared, and was replaced with full dehydrated shrimp (yuck).
And they're putting less product in the same size tins of sardines, herring and kipper.
I used to have to use a fork or other utensil to dislodge the kipper from its tin, now it practical falls out on its own, and there's more liquid in it than before too. A combination of oil and water.
When it comes from Thailand, it already doesnt look like food. It looks like dog food, dog food with mercury poisioning.
I love it but the quality is always hit and miss even with the same brands. One can will have a perfect filet and the next will be a soup of shredded fish.
HOW CAN YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PRICE OF TUNA ?
A Wendy's Baconator cost $ 8:80 a Classic Chicken Sandwich $ 7:40
A can Starkist of 5oz. Albacore tuna cost $ 1.79 to $ 2:39 depending where you bought it.
nah what you need is those wild planet sardines, so good and the fat content is just right, so healthy too
This.
Exactly this. I gave up tuna for sardiens 4 years back. Sardines is what everyone should be eating. It's also far more sustainable because they breed like crazy.
Shh don't reveal the secret! Now the discounts are gone!
Absolutely! Wild Planet tuna is great too.
Yes. I also like their skipjack tuna.
What about heavy metals?
Hasn't really been good since the black album.
30 years ago a can of solid white tuna consisted of one fairly large portion of fish with a few scraps.
It was delicious, now they are selling mush, while the sushi market consumes the bulk of the quality cuts.
Mayonnaise now has soy oil in it so, you're not missing much to pass on tuna sandwiches.
I have, over the past 25 years, moved away from canned food in general. Whole fresh food as much as possible.
No mention of mercury?
This introduced me to a new brand that I'll try... I can't stand canned tuna because its overcooked... but the way Wild Planet it does it sounds delicious! I also appreciate their business practices of not participating in the ghost economy. It's available at Costco & Thrive Market from what I can see. I want to like tuna in a can because it's an easy source of high protein. I honestly rather pay more for good business ethics, sustainability, & transparency.
same here ... didn't realize there was such a different now I'm excited to try wild planet
I'm a big fan of wild planet
Wild Planet is the only brand of tuna I buy now. It's not cheap, but the quality is much better than the big brands. I always stock up when it's on sale at Costco (which isn't often).
@@bodaciouscowboySame here! Costco usually has a very fair price on it
It's not bad, just a tad pricier than other brands
I was a college student in the early 2000's and tuna was $0.50 a can. Even when it went up for a couple of years sale prices would see $0.50/can. At some point that stopped and the price was 50-100% higher. Never to return. If the price had merely gone to $0.55 or $0.59 I would've kept buying. Very very simple. Raise prices 50% overnight on anything and you should expect 80%+ of your customers to stop buying. Similarly, when fast food drinks went from $1 to $2 over a year's span I went to drinking water. Still do 15-20 years later.
Like about a decade ago, canned tuna started tasting fishier right out of the can. Even with add-ons like mayo or lemon, that strong fishy taste never goes away. Even albacore taste off.
I thought they would mention something about mercury levels in Tuna, now I'm intrigued to do my own research Lol.
screws up my gut. there aren't chunks anymore. it's like it's been blended. there are many reasons why i dont buy it.
I remember a pretty pricey local brand of canned tuna that feels premium because the it's packed full of large chunks. It has become much more expensive, it's mushy it looks like cat food, and if has less meat in it.
Tuna contains a lot of toxic mercury and other contaminants. The reason for that is that this is big predatory fish at the top of food chain. Tuna eats other carnivorous fish, and that way is concentrating mercury.
It is better to eat small fish like herring or salmon.
The factory puts a “dolphin safe” label on the can but they bought the fish from a big boat they don’t own that apparently bought the fish from another boat so yeah sure.
I've been searching for some tuna-safe dolphin!
It really depends on the tuna. The chunk light tuna is typically from skipjack tunas, which do not typically associate with dolphins, making them dolphin safe (or at least really high likelihood).
@@jeremylow7757 Fascinating!... but I wish they'd stop calling it "chunk light," when (especially in contrast with the alternative) it'd be more accurately described as "flake dark." ;-)
yea it is dolphin safe my left nut
japan's fukushima disaster made things worse when the entire area was contaminated with radioactive discharge which directly affected the waters of tuna migration patterns.
Yeah that disaster is one of the reasons I don't eat seafood, taste and smell is the main reasons
Thai union group had revenue of 987.8 million and a profit margine of 3%, that 3% still comes out to 29,634,000 dollars a year.
How on earth is that a tight margin?
Most of their fish are illegally caught in neighboring Myanmar water. Just sayin'.
I have no idea what you are talking about I eat a lot of canned tuna. And by how much shelf space it takes up at the store many others must buy it also or stores would not wast so much very valuable shelf space on it.
Fish is by far the best meat one can eat for their health and canned tuna is just way to convenient not to use. It requires no refrigeration you can store it for years and you can make things with it with no need to cook it.
I eat canned tuna daily at work because of the above reasons.
Affordability and lack of coupons now lol. I was killing it when I was young broke, after every gym session and while in the field in the military or deployments. Now with money, I avoid tuna because of their high ass pricing. I used to get 4 packs of starkist sun flower for $2 total. Now it’s almost 8 dollars
Mercury. My doctor said to limit fish to 1x per week and to eat less processed frozen fish, not canned. If you have to eat canned meat, eat canned chicken. Anything that comes in a can qualifies as a processed food and will have less nutritional value than fresh or frozen food.
The mercury is high in tuna because it is a high food chain predator and it bioaccumulates. Small fish that isn't tuna or marlin can be eaten in large quantities without fear of mercury accumulation.
dont eat too much or very often
Canned chicken has sodium phosphate which is bad for you…
@@killax7 Not anymore. Now the FDA has found mercury in ALL of it. And, after Fukushima and the release of tons of that water, NONE of it is "safe" anymore. I have quit all seafood. Period.
You rarely see mercury poisoning or stomach cancer in Japan caused by fish consumption and they eat a _lot_ of fish yet still hold the world's longest life expectancy for both men and women. I think it's exaggerated by US media.
We eat a lot of tuna around here. We seldom run out.
I almost completely stopped eating tuna when I learned about the mercury exposure. Not only is the mercury level quite high in tuna but the mercury you get from tuna never leaves your system. So every time you eat tuna you're adding mercury to your system for the rest of your life. That's enough for me to mostly avoid it.
Mercury, but what is revealed here certain reinforces that decision. I stopped eating large fish at the top of the food chain back when I went to a holistic dentist and had all the mercury amalgam fillings removed from my teeth. Expensive, but I never regretted the decision. I eat a lot of sardines sourced in Europe (safer can linings, regulated fisheries, good quality), also Atlantic mackerel and Alaska salmon.
Yes. I eat mackerel, sardines and salmon. The mercury in tuna means that I well never touch it.
A tuna fish sandwich was my favorite lunch growing up. But I gave up tuna a few years ago because I was getting terrible hives after eating...perhaps due to mercury or histamine in the tuna. Switching brands did not make any difference.
Tuna everywhere are happy for your loss
Yeah I stopped eating tuna when I found out the mercury exposure from tuna builds up in your system for your entire life. Every time you eat tuna you add more mercury that never goes away.
plain canned tuna used to be like .50 a can and you got more. now the containers in everything contain less product and are double or more the price. used to get them regularly back in the early to late 2000's when prices and net weight were still good haven't got any in well over a decade now and that is why
The price went up. Lol. Its now almost $2 a can, and $3 for the solid Albacore.
Canned tuna in the average store is of bad quality. Last time Costco brought tuna from Italy based in olive oil and it was high quality. The cost was discounted at 8 cans for $5.
If it was Genova, it was bought by Thai Tuna years ago. Genova was better 20 years ago.
I thought the video would talk also about the risk of consuming Mercury in albacore tuna. I stopped eating canned albacore tuna that has no transparency on how much Mercury is in the can. This video is only about cost.
It's no reasons for them to be so expensive 29 cents,39 cents,49,59c to $3.00 dollars
I stopped buying Tuna a few years ago. I loved eating it while growing up but after finding out how much micro plastic is in our oceans, I completely stopped eating anything from the water
In the early 70s, changes in ocean temperatures drove the anchovy population further out from the South American coast. Too far for the fishing fleet to achieve. Europe had used fish meal extensively for cattle feed and had to substitute American grain, at the same time that Russia had a failed wheat crop. They showed up at the Chicago trading pits and bid that crop to the sky. Suddenly, the price of bread rose spectacularly in the US, all because the water got warmer offshore of Chile. We live in a world of interrelated consequences.
Probably had more to do with over fishing.
@@TGWazoo1 1973 it really was about the warming ocean and the migration of the schools of anchovies. We were in an El Nino cycle, warmer water had moved off the west coast. The anchovies followed the warmth, the game fish followed the anchovies and the later jump in fuel prices made the trawlers uneconomic at those distances. Serious over-fishing issues still lay in the future.
Flash, news flash you believe everything you read. The Markets are there to manipulate for profit
I wish more people understood how our world is interconnected .
I stopped buying canned tuna due to the watering down of the product. The last cans I purchased were basically soup. No mas.
IKR! I think they add more liquid so the can weighs the same. What do you think about Nature's Catch? 3x the cost but better product. Just don't think it's worth the cost.
I never tried that brand. But to be honest I have decided to do without tuna in my diet for health reasons now. I used to buy tuna for my cats as a treat Bumble Bee brand and could not help seeing the water content increase and yes, I believe as you stated, the extra water content was to make the can weight claim. I also noticed the Friskies cat food has also increased water as well. Such a turnoff.@@dwaynejones1555
Solid remains solid but "chunk" for a least one brand has become "flakes", which is the 3rd style and the cheapest.
natural catch is well worth the cost when you consider what it cost for the other garbage.@@dwaynejones1555
Buy the chunk not the flake stuff
I should have been born a cat, I LOVE tuna. BUT, like many others, I've become VERY disenchanted over buying it at the local stores. I used to see cans with markings like "solid tuna" invoking a nice portion of meat. It usually wound up more like ground up tuna. So I eventually switched to Albacore. Also usually marked as being "solid white Albacore" but it eventually wound up like before. Already chewed up. I haven't been there in a long time, but I plan to go to my local Costco and but some of theirs. It has ALWAYS been as labeled, "solid Albacore". The BEST. I hope I'm not going to be disappointed again.
Australian tuna fishermen keep albacore, the chicken of the sea, for themselves and send the bluefin to Japan. Albacore, fresh and cut into steaks, is just a step or two away from salmon at a fraction of the price.
I stopped because of high mercury content and when I found out "dolphin safe" is b.s. and there is no real monitoring or enforcement.
Girl at work heated a tuna sandwich in the microwave immediately ran everyone out of the cafeteria
People who microwave fish in the lunchroom cafeteria don't have many friends...
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🤮 Awful..
Did it have cheese on it? 🤤
@@invisible.fatman only if she didn't wash from the night before
I watched this while eating vacuum bagged tuna. The flavors are pretty good. The calories are low, and the pricing is about $1.25 per package on the high end.
I only eat bag tuna now
Which brand?
I absolutely LOVE canned tuna
Every time I’m in America I try to buy the most expensive can and no matter what it says or costs it’s still flaky garbage. In Australia we have solid chunk tuna Italian style and it’s cheap.
0:04: 🐟 The tuna industry is experiencing a significant change in patterns and is adapting to new technologies and markets.
2:40: 🐟 The video discusses the process of how canned tuna is made and the lack of control over third-party suppliers.
5:30: 🐟 The tuna industry has faced fluctuating consumption rates and profits, with a surge in demand during the pandemic in 2020 but a drop in consumption and profits in 2021.
8:07: 💰 Bumblebee and Starkist pleaded guilty to price-fixing, resulting in substantial fines and imprisonment.
10:23: 🐟 The tuna industry is facing challenges due to high prices, sustainability concerns, and climate change.
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I think that quality has dropped over the years, a lot, especially the big brands. Taste is weird.
We fell out of love because of price increases, and smaller portions. The cans are like half water now.
A general advice: always verify whether something is true before questioning the reasons behind it.
"We had to raise pricing due to cost increases" says the company that made $204 million dollars instead of $248 million. We are still talking about massive massive profits while the consumer suffers
Canned tuna is about as tasty as styrofoam
There are no chunks in the chunk light tuna, it's just a watery mush of small tuna bits.
I watched the entire video and didnt learn why Americans fell out of love with canned tuna… until I read the comments. Apparently it was cost$$$