In the previous article, I will explain to you why silver cod is not suitable for babies. Many bao moms ask me backstage, how to choose cod?
I spent a whole month looking for all kinds of information, researching all kinds of cod sold by e-commerce, and running different supermarkets and wet markets, so that I could finally turn in my homework.
First look at a message from a mother:
Eighty percent of them bought fake cod, and the child had diarrhea
This is really buying fake cod, a fake of a black-hearted merchant!
You can't blame parents for being careless, after all, the trade names of cod in the domestic market can be described as chaotic, e-commerce or physical stores, you can find a lot of different cod.
For example, real cod, Norwegian cod, silver cod, black cod, Alaskan cod, Russian cod, Antarctic cod, etc., there are exquisite packaging, there are also simple to plastic wrap casually wrapped.
The price also ranges from 20 yuan to more than 300 yuan per kilogram, which is really messy, and the merchant will not tell you that it is catty.
<h1>First, these 3 kinds are "fake cod", don't buy it wrong</h1>
1 Oil fish - don't eat it, it will diarrhea
This is the fake cod that causes the baby's ass to leak oil!
Some moms may remember the article many years ago and Ma Yili diss black-hearted merchants on Weibo selling fake cod, causing their daughter to pull grease.
The infamous "oil fish" is scientifically known as "heteroscaled snake mackerel" or "spiny snake mackerel". The price is very cheap, one pound is only twenty or thirty dollars.
This fish contains a substance called "wax ester", and people cannot digest it at all, so they have to excrete it as it is. So there was diarrhea, butt oil spills!
Fortunately, there is no such oil fish in regular large supermarkets now, and it may be found in some loosely regulated wet markets.
If you see cod that is particularly cheap and the packaging information is not clear, parents should be careful. In addition, oil fish contains more fat, so the meat color will be yellower than cod.
Oil fish vs cod comparison
2 Silver cod – limited to a limited diet and high mercury content
As I said in the previous part, this one is simpler.
Silver cod is not cod! Not cod! Not cod!
Silver cod is divided into bare-covered fish (black cod) and small-scaled canine tooth Antarctic fish (canine toothfish, Chilean sea bass, French silver cod)
Look at the information on the package and see if there are any of these names. Like these are silver cod —
It has nothing to do with cod, so why is it called such a high-level name as "silver cod"?
This name is actually given by the Japanese, these two kinds of fish sliced large, and snow white, no fine thorns, tender flesh, and a faint milk fragrance, deeply loved. When they bought silver cod, they felt they had bought real cod.
At present, it is defined as the most suitable silver cod for babies to eat, because the heavy metal mercury content is serious, so it is not the first choice for baby food supplements.
If you don't want to eat cod, it is recommended to eat it once or twice a month, and a maximum of 50 grams at a time is enough. Why is silver cod not suitable for babies? You can refer to another article ☞, directly link silver cod nutritional value is super high, but try to eat as little as possible, especially children and pregnant women
3 Flat cod – although it is a fake cod, the fish is good and can be eaten often
It is actually flounder (flounder), the nutritional taste is good, the baby can eat.
But don't look at the name and mistakenly think it's cod too.
<h1>2 These are not genuine cod, they are distant relatives and neighbors</h1>
Some of them are mistaken for cod, but they are not real cod, but they are related to each other.
1 No cod required
No need cod, commonly known as white cod, is sometimes written on the packaging of the product "Merlot cod". A treasure is bid 14 yuan / kg, 5 kg free shipping.
This fish has a higher fat content than three kinds of real cod, so it tastes better.
2 Fine-scaled cod
The distant relatives of this cod, posing as genuine cod, raise their value and are more common in the market. The packaging usually reads "Russian cod", "deep-sea cod", "cod slices", "frozen cod pieces", "cod", "cod". You go to ask the merchant what kind of cod, if you are vague and can not answer the eight achievements is this product.
After changing the name to packaging beauty, the original 10 yuan, 20 yuan per kilogram of fine scaled cod can be sold twice as expensive, and even some merchants marked the commodity name as "Russian imported cod baby food", sold to 90 yuan a pound, gross profit of 400%, super profiteering there are wood.
This kind of fish is no problem for the baby to eat, but it has spent unjust money to buy real cod.
There are also haddock, green cod, yellow cod, cod, etc., all of which are related to cod, but they are basically invisible in China, and they are not introduced here.
<h1>Third, these 4 kinds of cod are genuine, buy it! </h1>
To define true cod, from the classification of fish, fish belonging to the cod-cod family-cod are true cod, and there are four species - Atlantic cod, Pacific cod, Greenland cod, and yellow-lined cod.
1 Atlantic cod
To say that the most orthodox cod, it is none other than it. It even caused the "cod war" between Iceland and Britain.
The products we buy on the market, if the packaging has the words "Atlantic cod, Norwegian cod, Arctic cod, real cod", is the most real cod, yes.
The price span is still relatively large, ranging from 40 to 200 yuan per kilogram.
2 Pacific cod
We also have a distribution in the Yellow Sea of the Bohai Sea, the catch is quite large, known as the big head fish, has always been classified by local fishermen as low-grade seafood. Recently, a treasure on 99 yuan 3 pounds of SF, the seller said that it is called cod, but asked in detail, how to refuse to tell what kind of fish, but said that in the deep sea fishing near Qingdao, eight achievements are this kind of fish. If anyone knows the inside story, please let us know, thank you.
3 Yellow-lined cod
It is also known as Alaskan cod and mingtai fish.
This mother must be familiar with it, the cod sandwich in KFC and the Cod Fort in the Golden Arches is it, and it is often used in Japanese and Korean cuisine.
Compared with other true cod, its fate is relatively bumpy, it was first considered to be a cod genus, and later it was moved to the narrow cod genus, and now after recognizing the ancestors and returning to the clan, it returns to the cod genus.
4 Greenland cod
Greenland cod are small, have a very low catch, are barely visible in the market, and can be ignored by mothers.
Buy cod, it is best to buy regular brand products in the regular supermarket, the packaging will indicate what kind of cod, convenient for us to judge. Finally, I spent a month summarizing a picture for everyone. Long press to collect into the mobile phone album, usually when you go to buy it, you can take it out to see.
If the seller does not indicate it, tell you that it is cod, but do not tell you which cod it is, you can basically guess whether it is a fine-scaled cod or a cod, or even an oil fish.
True cod is nutritious and is very suitable for babies to eat, and high-quality protein is the cornerstone of immunity.
Remember to choose the right one.
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I am a registered dietitian Xiao Muqi, focusing on nutrition for 8 years, writing popular science I am very serious, and now I am a 100,000 family science parenting consultant.