Canned Chunk Tuna  

How to produce: Tuna fish are cleaned well, before removing their heads, gills and viscera. These cleaned pieces of sardines are then cooked by steaming or deep frying. After cooking, these fish pieces are dried and packed in Brine.

Nurtion fact

1. When canned in brine, light tuna contains more fat and therefore more calorie.

One can contains 339 calories, which are made up of 14 g of fat and 49.8 g of protein. This 49.8 g of protein provides more than 100 percent of the recommended amount for women and 89 percent for men.

2. Along with the 14 g of fat, 2.6 g of which are saturated fat, one can of tuna canned in brine contains 31 mg of cholesterol.

3. The vitamin and mineral content of tuna canned in brine is similar to that canned in water. One can provides 75 percent of phosphorus, 18 percent of potassium, 15 percent of B-6 and more than 100 percent of selenium, B-12 and niacin.