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Bonus protein

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Sell it as "protein tuna" and you can even markup the prices!

The protein tuna diet

Futurama covered this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasites_Lost

I wonder how this will affect sushi ? Could people eating that get infected ? Seems in very rare cases the answer is yes.

I am from an older generation, I have never nor will ever eat sushi :)

So what makes raw fish safe is that the fish is froze at a temp for a period of time. Its different depending on temp and duration.

But the cold kills the parasites. Its why "sashimi grade fish" is safe.

> "sashimi grade fish"

This term has no legal definition and is unregulated. A fish caught, cut, and thrown on a plate as sashimi could be called sashimi grade having never touched a freezer to kill off parasites.

It won’t. sushi is flash frozen for exactly this reason

It doesn't, really - this is a known hazard. You want fish that was flash-frozen very rapidly after harvesting. It's tastier and it kills (these types of) parasites. Which is basically what you're going to get at any decent sushi place.

Never too old to try something that is incredibly delicious. :-) My mom (born 1943) introduced me to sushi. Can't blame generation there.

All sushi fish is frozen for some number of days to kill anything. I guess the only risk would come from somebody not doing there job properly, but I'm sure a sushi chef would notice a living worm parasite in the fish they are cutting

Yeah these are microscopic

I don't think that the Anisakis species discussed in this article would generally be considered microscopic, as demonstrated by various photos included in the article. The Trypanorhyncha larvae are smaller, but also likely to be visible without microscopy as well, on the basis of the scale I'm inferring from the included photos vs. the muscle striation in the tuna.

Larvae are tiny and translucent and mold with each jump from one host to the next,

I can assure you by direct experience than the adults colonies could pass for a noodless dish at the first look.

You can eat Sushi that is cooked, and there are even vegetarian rolls that don't have any fish. Sushi is quite good.

It's not a generational thing, at least not anymore. People older than you were eating sushi back when Western businesses started intensely transacting with the Japanese in the late 20th century (60s, 70s, 80s).

> have never nor will ever eat sushi

You're really missing out. It's probably my favorite food on the planet, lol.

Assuring than no undesirable worms reach the table, ever, is the main reason of Japanese having developed sushi. Every fish in Japan destined to be served as sushi is ultra frozen first

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