Why Americans Fell Out Of Love With Canned Tuna

[@durgan5668]

I can save everyone 13 minutes of their life: Cost, cost is why we 'fell out of love' with canned tuna.

[@TechGorilla1987]

You're doing Gods work.

[@javiruiz8365]

God bless you!! 😂

[@hjer731]

Thank you 🎉

[@davidb2206]

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.

[@walden6272]

Thank you Mr. Hamster.

[@thomassawicki2065]

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.

[@tinh_lai_ivietnam5253]

More water than tuna per can. What a cheating industry.

[@antoniox2040]

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 🤗

[@Jc-cv2ug]

Would you like some more salt with that salt?

[@skynova9967]

Sounds more like a jail meal or slop should I say…

[@ml.2770]

Sounds good.

[@jamesjenkins3384]

Sounds great! The college cafeteria potato bar saved me.

[@bambinaforever1402]

Awful. U still alive? My salad recipe a can of tuna, iceberg salad, tomato, cucumber, onion, olives, sprinkled with Balsamico de Modena and Virgin olive oil. No salt no pepper - plenty of it in tuna

[@FortisKev]

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.

[@loveSAVE-e7k]

ike many other foods , price and quality are horrible

[@dawns4641]

They aren’t talking about mercury in the fish. USDA suggests to eat tuna once a week to avoid too much mercury.

[@nattysam94]

Yes, cost wasn’t my main reason at all. It was all about the mercury concentrations.

[@derkommissar4986]

Tell that to those island people who eat only fish all the time.

[@steelearmstrong9616]

New study’s show that mercury is beneficial for brain function and cures all forms of insomnia

[@nattysam94]

@@steelearmstrong9616seriously?? lol

[@CR055FIRE]

@@nattysam94 try it drinking a glass of mercury and you will see how good it is for you

[@jakeMontejo3272]

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.

[@aroundslotown]

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.

[@annenelson5656]

That must have been amazing. I’m glad you had such a cool experience.

[@Smokey298]

And if they ran into you they coulda killed you lol

[@ravenstarfire8816]

@@Smokey298 At least they spared your life. But humans dont.

[@burntReynoldz]

they are fast powerful eating machines !! sounds like an amazing experience

[@DesertPackrat]

What drove me away from tuna was having to much in my diet that mercury and microplastics became a concern.

[@stevewoodard527]

Not one mention of heavy metal contamination, even to debunk it. What's up with that?

[@killax7]

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.

[@KrazyKrzysztof]

because you cannot debunk it

[@JD-xg8zi]

Anyone whose mom made tuna noodle casserole growing up knows DAMN WELL why they don’t want tuna.

[@Jasmine215100]

I'm sorry but I just loved tuna casserole on Friday nights!

[@same5952]

🤣🤣

[@CR055FIRE]

all casseroles are gross but tuna casserole sounds super nasty

[@thomasmazur6916]

Their tuna is so watered-down and gushy that you can't even wring it out.

[@Eric_In_SF]

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.

[@uploadmeful]

I think you're forgetting a good amount of the cost. Is the processing, packaging and transportation.

[@francismarion6400]

yes fuel has doubled under Briben

[@TheDigitalThreat]

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.

[@francismarion6400]

@@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.

[@ahndeux]

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.

[@GavinSeim]

The canned tuna was switched to mushy trash and they didn't think we would notice 😂

[@paranoidhumanoid]

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.

[@lore00star]

Cento is not italian

[@brqxton8974]

@@lore00starit’s a brand started in Italy, by an Italian, selling Italian products. How can it be LESS italian

[@maba7305]

Thank you for the info.

[@admaioranatus1048]

This is the info that people combing through comments section look for. Gold! So thank you.

[@draculastraphouse7863]

Those Japanese animals are the reason why tuna will be extinct one day, including dolphins and whales.

[@x-raycat323]

Girl at work heated a tuna sandwich in the microwave immediately ran everyone out of the cafeteria

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

People who microwave fish in the lunchroom cafeteria don't have many friends...

[@shermanmathieu6981]

🤣

[@leonceboudreauxwolf]

🤮 Awful..

[@x-raycat323]

@invisible.fatman only if she didn't wash from the night before

[@EastSider48215]

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.

[@Roque-Cachamuiña-gs1wd]

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.

[@homyce]

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!

[@eltiolavara9]

i know exactly what you mean, it's godly

[@ianworley8169]

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.

[@michaelweir995]

It's a delicatessen? What the hell?

[@eltiolavara9]

@@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)

[@stephenbrinckerhoff3510]

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.

[@majorlaff8682]

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.

[@michellehoeks7961]

Now I’m craving tuna tostadas with peas mixed in and some lemon juice 😂

[@chrisretired5379]

Oooh, good idea ! 👍👍🌹

[@dlewis8405]

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.

[@mitchellinoakland]

I've been searching for some tuna-safe dolphin!

[@jeremylow7757]

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).

[@mitchellinoakland]

@@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." ;-)

[@KrazyKrzysztof]

yea it is dolphin safe my left nut

[@chrismontalban5538]

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.

[@rcud1]

mercury? other contaminants ?

[@johnnychang4233]

3:58 The Portuguese method Wild Planet ones?

[@johnnychang4233]

@@rcud1 Animals has more acute sense to detect contaminants.

[@markvanderstelt8999]

i think she read the Ingredients

[@joeymartinez5515]

Bumble Bee makes Kirkland tuna...

[@cybair9341]

Now that the Japanese released radioactive water into the Pacific ocean, the possibility of eating radioactive tuna is a real concern for me.

[@garbo8962]

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.

[@janlefebvre932]

We eat a lot of tuna around here. We seldom run out.

[@missdenisebee]

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.

[@nerdlingeeksly5192]

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?

[@NurseVic-sy5nd]

Most of their fish are illegally caught in neighboring Myanmar water. Just sayin'.

[@braised44]

The price fixing scandal should keep everyone away from tuna. The executives of those companies deserve much more prison time than they got!

[@DavidBrannon-rp2nq]

You used to get chunk light tuna and it was cheap and then they doubled the price and sold loose scraps

[@michaelrtreat]

Never knew tuna was such a complex and global industry. Thank you.

[@mobiussquadron]

I'll be honest I used to like tuna. I still eat it every now and then, but I've actually gone the way of the sardine. GW Polar's smoked sardines are amazing, so are the king oscar sardines in olive oil/Mediterranean sardines in olive oil ( all brisling sardines). I'll take them over tuna any day.

[@danhillman4523]

Those smoked sardines are awesome.

[@danjo8673]

There are no chunks in the chunk light tuna, it's just a watery mush of small tuna bits.

[@markburnham7512]

I have, over the past 25 years, moved away from canned food in general. Whole fresh food as much as possible.

[@jameshattub351]

I have throw away countless cans of tuna. I call it crap in a can. Some cans contain sloppy bits of tuna while others contain blood parts and skin. Gross. The prices don't match bad quality.. I have almost give up on the big three. They just don't care anymore.

[@RidiculousRocketry]

I started watching this, got about 5 minutes in then remembered that beige semi-gloss is playing on the Watching Paint Dry Channel.

[@paulmelbourne9463]

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.

[@papapsych2746]

I eat a can every day for lunch, sometimes I eat another if I want a midnight snack, have done so for the last decade. I've had blood work done to show what my vitamin and mineral levels are, that I needed magnesium, not drugs. I don't have abnormal levels of mercury.

[@arthurdub7901]

I don’t care how much money I make or where I’m at in life. I’m never above eating canned tuna- my childhood memories 😊

[@CARLPHILLY]

I agree with what most are saying here. The coast went sky high, and the can got smaller and smaller and what's in the can's quality went to nothing.

[@joeharris3878]

News to me . Tunafish is one of the four basic food groups, along with pizza, bran flakes, and hamburgers.

[@MooseMeus]

chili and mac and cheese with me. i always have chili, it's my go-to food, but i can also make mac n cheese if im feeling like a fatty OR chili mac n cheese if im feeling like gordon ramsay

[@ihmpall]

And ass

[@jessekendall4658]

beans or no beans?@@MooseMeus

[@MooseMeus]

@@jessekendall4658 1/2 pound ground beef, large can of diced tomatoes, small can of black beans and don't wash them. half a pack of favorite chili seasoning(kroger) put everything in pan cook on low for like 4 hours.

[@asha8443]

Gross

[@matthrivnak6572]

I have several cans of tuna at my house for tuna sandwiches, and still buy it!

[@parkerxgps]

If I could just figure out the ratio my mother used for her sandwiches she made me, I'd be all over more of this. That and product quality.

[@donkiker]

I never liked canned tuna, but I used to eat sushi all the time when I was younger, now I stick with my sardines, they are so much better and cheaper than mercury-tainted tuna and other big fish!!!

[@Tomana_]

the real reason for the drop in sales ... MERCURY content in tuna

[@insekta1701]

I buy canned tuna every month for my cats, and I might eat a can or two every year, but I buy tuna regularly for my cats as a treat. It might sound silly, but I’m willing to buy tuna cans for them as they love it. ☺️☺️

[@Boudica234]

For me it was mercury. I don't want to ingest mercury and when u eat tuna that's part of the package. Now I prefer sardines.

[@EricAdamsonMI]

As a long-lived, deep-diving fish, tuna accumulate higher levels of mercury than many/most ocean fish. It's less healthy, among options.

[@shanetyler9391]

Tuna Sandwich with Mayo THE BOMB :) with pickles even better :) i love tuna :) and iam 42

[@julioxfinity7066]

Good. Unsustainability is an issue for me, but I stopped eating tuna a long time ago due the high levels of mercury in tuna.

[@KaniJoinbricks-dg6ke]

Supply and demand says less people want the product prices go down. Yet tuna prices continues to rise. Why. GREED.

[@Leandro-x4i]

I know American Indians from South America and the love casava bread with fish. On question now. Why the hell casava bread is not a major industrialized eatables.?

[@JosephGoemaat]

I live in Iowa and I have been buying my tuna from fareway,they have it five for five!!so I bought a bunch of it

[@nathangamble125]

Rick Goché sounds like a solid man who can deftly redirect any attack, and not allow anything to penetrate his outer shell. I wonder if he knows Andy Scepter, Dee Flection, or Mark Surtees-Ickx's Arbok?

[@jerrodlo4449]

I still eat it. One of my favorite snacks

[@bomara66]

The quality of canned tuna fell way off around 2000, ESPECIALLY Chicken of the Sea and Bumblebee.

[@aroundandround]

0:19 “This is ricochet.” He bounces off any hardship.

[@tibedog5629]

Tuna cans are so tiny now. I use to not be able to hold them properly if I sat them in my palm, barely able to curl my fingers up around the edges. Now they are so tiny they barely fill my palm and now cost 4x more than that old prior can I remember. Stopped getting tuna in mass a very long time ago. Now I just sometimes get a few cans if I go on a long drive to keep in the car incase of a break down.

[@tonyredmond2000]

I love canned Tuna. I’m an American. Just saying.

[@davidj.kleinsasser8673]

I stopped eating tuna after learning that tuna stocks are down to 4%. That is just not sustainable, just as cod stock on the Grand Banks has yet to recover from overfishing after over a 30 year moratorium. At 4% there is much reduced genetic diversity leading to mutations, inbreeding, and susceptibility to disease.

[@nohandle62]

After you've had proper sashimi, the stuff in the can just doesn't cut it.

[@namenotavailable7365]

I eat canned tuna twice a week. Great protein source.

[@PILMAN]

I tend to go with more artisan options or pole and line caught from Portugal and Spain even if it costs more, the quality is better too. I get everthing from skipjack to yellowfin, albacore and bluefin but tuna is no longer my primary source, for that i eat mainly sardines now in olive oil

[@juanstreet]

This whole video doesn’t mention once one of the primary reasons people are not consuming as much tuna as before, MERCURY. Several species of tuna - like other large ocean fish - contain higher-than-average amounts of mercury, a highly toxic metal that can cause severe health effects. Industrial activities have tripled the amount of mercury in the surface of the oceans over the past couple of centuries.

[@Albopepper]

Because mercury.

[@ralphrugan5985]

Price is why we fell out of love!

[@slewone4905]

As an Angeleno, it's sad to see an industry invented, yes invented in Los Angeles, being sent to Thailand, and bought out by Foreigners. First we don't want traditional Tuna. Americans don't want fish that taste like fish, and we steam the fish to get rid of the oily taste. The big problem is I know someone who works in the industry. The support for the industry, last I know of, is still in Los angeles and I heard from a friends son that the Factory in Thailand was roach ridden. It's not the normal roach we have here in Los Angeles, but huge ones. As for global warming , BULL, as they say, the Fish moves. That doesn't mean they go extinct. and the main threat is overfishing, not global warming. They even say that, and then return to propaganda. as An Angeleno, we need to protect from overfishing, and we make sure no fishing take place off Southern California coast of Blue fin, because it's the breeding ground for the fish.

[@waltdill927]

You can buy high quality tuna -- especially what comes out of Portugal, and the Thai brands are excellent. The "big three" of American tuna became low-grade cat food years ago (even if your cat will eat it).

[@pishi1990]

With the oceans being so polluted now, I wouldnt touch or eat any of this with a 10ft pole. 😂😂

[@jw77019]

The “fancy white Albacore tuna” used to be very solid and chicken-like. Over the years, it’s looking and tasting like cat food, to me. According to Ina Garten, imported “good” tunais still good. I don’t know where to buy it. I think when people started cooking fresh tuna, the best quality tuna is sold at high price, so they make more money out of it. Anyway, if I am going to spend $25 for a steak, it’s going to be a prime beef steak. Also, unless things have changed, tuna has mercury in it, and there is no acceptable level of mercury in food. Tuna casserole used to be an economical family meal, but now the cat food-like flavor and appearance would make it unsuitable to ask children to eat, and then there’s thr mercury issue.

[@jamesm2577]

I find that the costco canned chicken makes a great alternative to tuna for sandwiches & it's been a good bit cheaper for so long I just don't care about canned tuna anymore

[@CharlesEbarb]

Cost is not why. Tuna cannot be farmed. We have never successfully mated tuna for breeding in captivity.

[@yatta99]

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.

[@hewitc]

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.

[@philipb2134]

@@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.

[@philipb2134]

@@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.

[@weytogoman]

Tuna is practically decomposed by the time you open the can.

[@hewitc]

@@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.

[@Raptorman0909]

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.

[@JeffPortnoyFatties]

Did not think of that dang

[@dh5380]

It’s actually just like cat food now. Think about it

[@Raptorman0909]

@@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.

[@mnguardianfan7128]

This is because the tuna population is crashing worldwide.

[@brianmclaughlin4419]

So Many "MisRepresentations" in this "Report", maybe YOU ought to be Fined some Millions of $$ for Sappy, Uncritical Reporting.

[@brokeduece1691]

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

[@spiffffffffff]

Bingo. On a relative basis, tuna is expensive.

[@alecfoor2665]

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 🍣

[@Blingchachink]

Ok

[@johnnyjayzeboomboomroom9163]

👏👏👏👏 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?

[@123RADIOactive]

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.

[@privacyvalued4134]

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.

[@xvx4848]

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.

[@philipb2134]

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.

[@orilion1820]

😂 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.

[@philipb2134]

@@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.

[@orilion1820]

@@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?

[@0sgtmay0]

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.

[@fladave99]

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

[@ghasanahmed6159]

Perfect reply

[@lindanorris2455]

RIGHT ON - TUNA BEGAN TO LOOK & SMELL LIKE CAT FOOD THAT ENDED IT FOR ME OVER (20) YRS. AGO! GROSS!

[@fladave99]

@throwaway3873 I would always ONLY buy Albacore. But it has turned to crap. I heard they are seling the good stuff to Japan where they pay more for it. Now I eat cod

[@thomasjones4570]

Buy name brands...

[@darmadusa]

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!

[@EngineVSEngine]

I haven't noticed any metallic taste to it

[@darmadusa]

@@EngineVSEngine Lucky for you!

[@NeroCloud]

@@EngineVSEngine some brands do have it but Im with you not all have that taste

[@Eric_In_SF]

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.

[@NeroCloud]

@@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

[@robintyde5441]

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

[@davetarpley3740]

TONNINO is delicious but the price has soared from the $7-$8 to $10-$11. It was always a luxury splurge. Their tuna belly cranks it up a notch. More expensive and insanely tasty. Pricey, high-quality canned fish is really getting trendy. Deservedly. Canned or jarred salt cod is stunning.

[@thomasjones4570]

All Tuna in olive oil tastes better. Even tuna in vegetable oil does. The oil preserves the flavor as well as more of the Omega acids.

[@ryanharris3072]

I stopped eating it because of the mercury and high prices

[@obsidianjane4413]

The tuna that goes into cans isn't mercury concentrators.

[@thecptpiratemonkey]

@@obsidianjane4413really ? time to get a can 🤗🤤

[@someguy2135]

@@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

[@tioswift3676]

@@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

[@Piggy991]

Now eliminate those other 100 sources of mercury from your food. Good luck.

[@Hefty54]

The whole story left out the high concentrations of mercury in tuna.

[@spyderdogg6248]

That the reason I cut my consumption. The told me to

[@steelbiceps]

The who told you???​@@spyderdogg6248

[@rgruenhaus]

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.

[@Wafflepudding]

Tuna's about $1.20 where I live. Mercury's more of a concern than price.

[@robertfoerster566]

That's awesome! Up here in Canada I've seen it selling for $3.99! CDN but still! :)

[@NurseVic-sy5nd]

Illegal catching: Most tuna and other fish from Thailand are illegally caught in neighboring Myanmar water.

[@jettramel]

Mercury is higher on my list of cutting back, no more than two cans a week, more like maybe one for me.

[@majwor3763]

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.

[@mikeicee]

Corn syrup is high in mercury but its not of concern

[@michaelterry1000]

I live for Tuna. Tuna that is swimming in mayonnaise. I am 61 years old and still awaiting my first heart attack.

[@dubliners0999]

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.

[@Demopans5990]

The sushi industry gets first dibs

[@MoBaconLives]

I buy my tuna from Ecuador. The quality is insanely high and the product is amazing. Worth every penny.

[@saulgoodman2018]

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.

[@KILLKING110]

and the quality has been going down hill regular tuna is extremely bland to the point that you can taste it

[@cromeromail]

Because we overfished.

[@sebastian3004]

Imagine someone talking about 80s price in early 2000. That is your logic. How do you pay for the rent compared to 2000???

[@Eric-lx8hp]

Shrinkflation

[@saulgoodman2018]

@@sebastian3004 I said nothing about price. I'm talking about size. Everyone know prices will always increase.

[@fintan9218]

A big thing for me was the quality of the canned tuna, it became catfood quality

[@zyxw2000]

I feed my cat very high quality food. I wouldn't give him human tuna.

[@orangecat5036]

Oh 😸

[@ihcuwign1707]

thats bad make sure theres no salt but its juat not healthy for cats

[@fintan9218]

@@ihcuwign1707 i just meant it looks like cat food, dark and mushy rather than white solid chunks.

[@capybaraponque611]

@@zyxw2000 thanks for lining my pockets, sucker

[@oceanmariner]

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?

[@bambinaforever1402]

99$???? A can of tuna????? Cat food???? Do YOU know how much a can of anything cat food costs????? Here is a revelation - way more than 99$

[@myoak108]

@@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.

[@unusualpond]

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.

[@hello12229]

Regardless of cost or any reasons discussed in this video, it’s the extremely high MERCURY and heavy metal content that pushed me away.

[@ericwilliams9440]

I eat roughly a small can a week & think about this often.

[@KrazyKrzysztof]

also they probably have a high microplastic content

[@toddbowers418]

Same. I used to eat 1-2 times a week. Now maybe once a month.

[@jettramel]

Yes, yes.

[@JF-xq6fr]

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.

[@ProfuzniChevap]

Rio Mare?

[@stevebowlus4315]

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.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

If CNBC were wise as duck 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

[@rgruenhaus]

I only buy solid white albacore. Anything else is just tuna-flavored sawdust.

[@phil2782]

Why would you add soy to tuna? Wtf is wrong with Americans? Why must they destroy something healthy with yet more soy?

[@markf3908]

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.

[@same5952]

Try Wild Planet tuna. It's excellent.

[@8platypus]

When it comes from Thailand, it already doesnt look like food. It looks like dog food, dog food with mercury poisioning.

[@mikepaulus4766]

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. 😂

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

😂😁🤣

[@blazz573]

What about heavy metals?

[@noahway13]

My last can, I found zip ties in it. White. I thought it was bones at first. Nope, plastic. THE American name brand.

[@FlashDriveFilms]

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.

[@TGWazoo1]

Probably had more to do with over fishing.

[@FlashDriveFilms]

@@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.

[@johnparkhurst825]

Flash, news flash you believe everything you read. The Markets are there to manipulate for profit

[@catherinesanchez1185]

I wish more people understood how our world is interconnected .

[@MooseMeus]

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.

[@TheBigExclusive]

13 minutes just to say "Canned tuna got expensive". Do better CNBC.

[@krlost4405]

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.

[@dallasryder8125]

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

[@dertythegrower]

Because heavy metals in foods now.. like mercury. Even in veganic meals that used seabird guano for crops.. which is a lot

[@deplorablecovfefe9489]

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.