Pangasius often falls on our counters called "shark catfish", as well as "marine language" - the first name arose because of the similarity of the fish fins with the shark, the second - just on the principle of a spoiled phone, someone did not understand something, and confused one creature with another.
But this is not the only ridiculous confusion associated with this fish - we believe that the caloric content and benefits of pangasius should have a beneficial effect on our body, only because it is a fish. Meat, as you know, is tasty, but harmful, and fish - almost identical to diet. Oh, how wrong we are ...
How many calories are in pangasius?
Actually, most of us do not even know what the Pangasius fish looks like, because in the shops we see fish only as a fillet - white, thin, elegant. This fillet "sailed" to us from Vietnam (the country supplies 90% of all pangasius in the world), it was there that the fish were manually cleaned of bones, skin and fat - the latter in pangasius is more than enough.
Further, in order to avoid airing, the fillet is covered with a thin layer of ice. And it is here that the problems begin ... Calories in pangasius are scanty - only 89 kcal per 100 g. This is convenient for any diet. However, both fillets and fish fat are white, and the ice layer does not allow us to see properly what we are buying.
Thus, at home we often bring unscrupulously cleaned fillets covered with fat. And 89 kcal do not concern the whole fish, namely the pure fillet. That is, in an ideal - this is 89 calories, and in practice it can be under 200 ...
The Danger of Pangasius
But if only the calories of Pangasius fish should have alarmed us. Vietnam is a country for a trip to which it is necessary to get vaccinated from 300 species of helminths that are found there everywhere and in everything. And our cute pangasius lives and undergoes industrial cultivation in the Mekong River.
This is precisely the problem - the caloric value and the theoretical benefits of the fish are in perfect order, but if it comes to its industrial breeding and contact with the "human factor", we can hardly talk about a useful product.
Pangasius is a freshwater fish, which means that it can not help being a helminth carrier when living in dubious waters. Of course, the caloric content of this fish is more than suitable for daily consumption, but for safety reasons, it is much better to fly on sea fish, and leave pangasius for aquarists - the fish is really very impressive, "in shark" looks in domestic aquariums.