Understanding Seafood Labels Before You Make a Purchase
Understanding Seafood Labels Before You Make a Purchase I used to just grab whatever fish looked decent and call it a day. No real thought behind it, no glancing at labels beyond checking the price. Then one day a friend who used to work at a fish market started rattling off terms while we were shopping together, “wild caught,” “farm raised,” “previously frozen,” and I realized I had absolutely no idea what half of it actually meant. I’d been buying seafood for years and couldn’t have told you the difference if you’d asked. So I started paying attention, asking questions, looking things up when I got home and had a weird term stuck in my head. It turns out seafood labels carry a lot more information than people usually bother reading, and once you know what to look for, shopping gets a lot less confusing. “Wild caught” versus “farm raised” is probably the label people notice first, mostly because it’s usually printed in bigger letters than everything else. Wild caught means the fish wa...