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Default Canned tuna in oil but without salt

Sqwertz wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:53:24 -0800, Blinky the Shark wrote:
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>> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> Michel wrote:
>>>> Is there such a thing? My wife likes tina in oil, but finds the canned
>>>> tuna usually too salty for her taste (she is very sensitive to salt).
>>> Read the ingredients list. If it says it includes salt you know it's not
>>> what you want. You will probably be pressed (no pun intended about the
>>> olive oil) to find tuna in oil without salt. Salt is used as a
>>> preservative with a lot of fish.

>> I haven't bought tuna in oil in years. It's typically packed in olive oil
>> now?

>
> Not in the United States it isn't. Some of it is lately - a
> fiarly recent development except for the Italian brands, but the
> vast majority is still canola or soybean oil.


Just checked a can I have in the stock cupboard - soybean oil here too.

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