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Make Tasty Swaps for Your Health with Seafood
Swap for Seafood
Transform Traditional Dishes with Seafood in These 4 Recipe Swaps
Now more than ever, food choices matter. People want healthy, environmentally friendly foods without sacrificing flavor. Substituting the traditional protein in your favorite dishes with seafood is one deliciously smart way to satisfy these demands.
What’s in a Name?
For many ingredients, substitutions are no problem. For example, pollock, which is a member of the cod family and shares many of its attributes, including a firm texture, mild flavor and snow-white fillets loaded with lean protein, works in any recipe calling for cod.
However, at the fish counter it pays to pay attention to names because the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulates what foods sold in the United States are called. This allows consumers to know more about their origin and be confident in the safety and environmental standards used to raise or harvest the product.
Recently, the FDA made a change regarding pollock. Alaska pollock was previously a…
