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miércoles, 13 de abril de 2022

5 Reasons to Buy Frozen

5 Reasons Frozen is Better

For the sake of our health, our pockets and our planet, it's time to stop turning a cold shoulder to frozen seafood. Sea to Table seafood is blast frozen at sea or on the dock to ensure you are getting the highest quality, most nutritious and environmentally-responsible product we can offer. Here are 5 reasons to skip the grocery store seafood counter and buy frozen instead:

#1: Taste and Quality. With 95% of all seafood consumed in the US being imported,

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#2: Nutrition & Safety. Much of frozen fish's bad reputation has to do with the perceived nutritional differences between it and fresh. Many people believe that frozen seafood is a lot less nutritionally dense than fresh. The truth is that this difference is minimal. And frozen is often safer to eat because the freezing process kills harmful bacteria.

#3 Environmental Responsibility. Counterintuitively, frozen fish has a smaller carbon footprint than fresh. Fresh fish must travel by air for thousands of miles to reach your plate, while frozen seafood travels by train and truck, producing much fewer carbon emissions.

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#4 Waste Reduction. As much as 47 percent of all edible seafood in the United States goes to waste, according to a study from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF). Seriously, almost half. That's staggering! And over half of that waste happens at the consumer level. By buying frozen, pre-portioned fish and defrosting just what you need, much of this spoilage would be eliminated.

#5 Grocery Store Fish is Gross. In a recent post on The Bittman Project, renowned food journalist and author Mark Bittman concluded that "The quality of the 'fresh' fish sold in almost every supermarket I've been to recently is, if not deplorable, then sad."

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