The cod in the cod burger is not really cod, you know?

I believe that many people know the word "cod", probably from KFC's "cod burger". At some point, cod entered the public eye and began to be more and more recommended, and various cod side foods came into being. Cod steak, cod burger, cod fillet, cod balls... So the question is, are these foods really made with cod?

Frozen cod meat is often sold in supermarkets, and maybe you like to eat "cod steak", but you may never actually eat cod. Listen to Haibao from the beginning, there is a cod in the fish, a cod in the cod family, a cod in the cod family, and three species of fish in the cod family. They are Atlantic cod, Greenland cod and Pacific cod. These three species of fish are veritable cod, and the rest are not cod.

Our most common is Atlantic cod. This is a cold-water fish that lives in the northern Atlantic Ocean, with a maximum body length of nearly two meters, tender flesh, thick bones, no small spines, and high yield. Fishermen in Northern Europe began fishing for Atlantic cod more than a thousand years ago, making the Atlantic cod they caught into a variety of salted and dried fish and trading them with other countries.

Later, with the development of the Industrial Revolution, people could preserve fresh cod for the nobility to eat. The appetite of predators grew, large numbers of cod were harvested and slaughtered, a natural vicious circle, and finally in 1970, cod production declined sharply, and it was about to become an endangered fish species. In recent years, with the increase in conservation awareness, Atlantic cod has gradually returned to normal numbers.

Pacific cod is distributed in the northern coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean, produced in China's Yellow Bohai Sea and the northern part of the East China Sea, is a more valuable deep-sea fish, it is small, the taste and Atlantic cod is no different. Fishermen in jiaodong area also call it "big head fishy", because of the lack of attention, so the annual production is relatively stable. Due to cheapness, more Pacific cod is made into frozen fillets and sold around the world.

Finally, there is the nobleman of cod, the Greenland cod. It is hardly seen in the market of our country.

The largest production of cod on the market is actually the yellow-lined cod, which is the second largest commercially caught fish in the world. Including cod burgers, crab meat sticks, fish balls, fish steaks, etc., almost all of them are made from yellow-lined cod. In addition, there are also bare-covered fish (blue cod), oil fish, and flounder who also like to pretend to be cod.

No matter what kind of cod, as long as the taste is good and the quality is guaranteed, consumers will not care. Although the nutrients contained in different cod may vary slightly, in the end, everyone is a marine fish, and they are all deep-sea fish, as long as the price is fair, there is no need to pretend to be "cod", consumers will also buy, you say?