Seafood Health Tips

Even though seafood is a healthy and nutritious food, there are ways to make it even better for you. Try some of these tips to enjoy an even healthier seafood experience:

RedLobster.com is a wonderful resource for seafood health tips. Some of their useful tips include:

• Substituting cocktail sauce for butter. Cocktail sauce will have you decreasing your fat content, a definite plus.

• Choose rice over french fries as your side dish. The savings in fat and carbohydrate content will have you smiling.

• Share dessert with a friend. Save calories the fun way.

• When preparing seafood, use broiling, steaming, and grilling as your method of cooking.

• Choose fresh seafood salads instead of deep fried seafood.

• Buy canned tuna in water instead of oil. Discard the liquid prior to eating.

• Add poaching as a heart healthy and quick method of cooking.

• Instead of heavy sauces, squeeze a fresh orange, lime or lemon over your seafood.

• Use herbs to season your seafood instead of butter and salt.