Mackeral

[Dizeee]

I often eat Mackeral with a Rocket and Rice salad, and tend to eat very healthily and monitor what goes in.

However, I have recently noticed on the nutritional information the obscene levels of fat that is apparently in the fish. However, is the fat mainly in the skin as I always peel off the skin from the 4 or do fillets that I buy.

As an aside, I also note that despite being fillets, they are always full of bones, and have been no matter where I get them from and since I started eating them 10 years ago!

[LordGrover]

It's all 'good' fat anyway so nothing to worry about. Not unless you eat them every day anyway.
The 'bones' are so fine they shouldn't be an issue anyway.

telegraph said:

Put simply, eating lots of oily fish is good for your heart.

Click.

[Mobile Chicane]

Dizeee said:

I often eat Mackeral with a Rocket and Rice salad, and tend to eat very healthily and monitor what goes in.

However, I have recently noticed on the nutritional information the obscene levels of fat that is apparently in the fish. However, is the fat mainly in the skin as I always peel off the skin from the 4 or do fillets that I buy.

As an aside, I also note that despite being fillets, they are always full of bones, and have been no matter where I get them from and since I started eating them 10 years ago!

Try it mashed with horseradish and a bit of creme fraiche on toast.

[Don]

Mackerel have bones like pins. The only way you get a fillet to really, honestly be a fillet is by going over it with tweezers using your fingers to feel out the remaining bones after doing the filleting with a knife. I used to do that when I caught them because I like to crumb them - which is unusual, I accept.

Oily fish is indeed supposed to be very good for you.

Smoked mackerel pate is superb stuff as well.

Mmmm. Might need to get me some before long!

[Don]

Mobile Chicane said:

Try it mashed with horseradish and a bit of creme fraiche on toast.

That sounds fantastic! Mmmm.

[Pete Franklin]

To easily remove bones in cheap fish like mackerel i would just cut a thin v dovn the pin bone section and remove them all in one go as it takes too long vs cost of small amount of fish lost.. for more expensive fish like seabass etc then yeah remove em individually. just my opinion though.

Edit: I think the type of fats found in oily fish actually break down other types of fats so are in fact good for you

Edited by Pete Franklin on Tuesday 13th July 15:39