Swai Fish Diet Details and Health Advantages

He is wrong about antibiotic. All drug have half life and excreted from body.

so this joker has been hired by fish companies or the government to promote fish eating. Consuming mercury is beneficial? do me a favour! there are so dangers to eating fish now days and he doesn’t bother to mention any of them. wonder why? wake up people

If you go to RASFF portal, which is the European food safety portal and type pangasius in “subject”line (second line) of the page, you will find the European food alerts for panga…:): https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/rasff-window/portal/?event=SearchForm&cleanSearch=1

I wanted to love the idea that the tilapia sold by Wholefoods was a good one! Anyways I always look for cod and haddock. Thanks for posting this!

Is some of the frozen cod sold really tilapia or catfish? How do we know?

I just eat a big plate full with tilapia…fuck i need to flush down everything

I have yet to find some frozen cod that wasn’t soggy when it thaws out. It’s hard to cook when it thaw out.

I just wan to know..
I raise tilapia in my backyaard and I feed them with azolla, duckweed, worms and pellets.. is this fine to eat and organic? or remove the pellets then fed with azolla duckweed and worms

Of all places you had to make the study in Iraq…I remember when Vietnam had their healthy dose of Agent Orange. Also, you didn’t mention the role of Selenium in binding with the Mercury in fish, nor did you conclude if mercury is a naturally occurring contaminant. If so, people would have been dying more often with the vaccines containing mercury and its derivative.

Sorry but I raise talapia and mine are raised organically. We raise catfish too.

What if you raise them and feed them organic fish food, and the pond is not over crowded? Would that make a difference? I can use them for aquaponics because it’s easier than other fishes. Thank you in advance

I was wise to Tilapia over 10 years ago. Why? I saw the mass marketing of that fish in grocery stores and restaurants. I was suspicious of a ubiquitous nature. Second, the fish looked nasty and dirty in whole or even as a filet the meat is dark, rigid texture and bland.

No one is gonna talk about how fine this nigga is?? ��������

the thing is in my experience…fish that look nice also taste nice….this fish does not look nice… xD

I didn’t know about tilapia until about 2 years ago and I was eating it twice a week and I was wondering why I was having fibromyalgia symptoms. When I stopped the tilapia intake the inflammatory disease in my body stopped. I didn’t know that tilapia was the fast-food of fish until then. Thanks for this awesome post.

you won’t live long enough being picky with your food. basically, eat anything to survive as long as it is edible. It is edible isn’t it? EAT it. you don’t know when you’ll die or how long will you live. EATING healthy foods doesn’t make you invincible anyway. you would die one way or another. Get old trying to survive. As long as you survive at the moment that’s what matters to me. whether you be vegetarian or vegan, it’s all the same. Alot of people don’t even eat regularly everyday, you’re lucky you get to fill your stomach / eat something to survive. Cultivate/preserve your body more for worms to eat you when you die. A lot of nutrients from your body they get to eat.

Pigs also eat and bathe in their waste and you guys still eat bacon.

Blah blah blah…Everything is bad brah. Next year a study will say oxygen will cause cancer. I ate it today, i’ll eat it tomorrow.

Thank you Thomas for so much helpful knowledge to assist us in adapting a healthier lifestyle. I’ve always worked toward a healthier way of life since I was 19 years old and now I’m 67. But you have also helped make it way easier along with amazing results by educating us with your valuable information. I am locked in on your channel! Thanks again!
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Oh so our cows are even better with all the hormones they inject. And mass production. I prefer something that comes from Asia they live longer and cancer rates and extremely low plus any animal protein is very acidic ��

I like a lot of your ideas. However, in the intros, you say it doesn’t matter what you eat, but when you eat and then…

Great points all around until you suggested eating a different fish that isn’t farmed yet. When it will be popular, it will be farmed sooner

Did You ever visited any country outside USA? Did You have seen how the food is farmed? Or is it just from “common knowledge” that everything farmed outside USA has no or minimal regulations? Serious, people all around the world watching your videos and constantly asking themselves “WTF!?”.

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throws away whole bag of frozen tilapia in my freezer

Hey nature we cant eat fish because of omega 6 & 3 imbalances.. there are different good tasty kinds of wild caught tilapia or aquaponics tilapia

Have you ever trief HYDROPONIC LETTUCE VS REGULAR ETTUCE its a big difference

good fish to eat not cheap to buy about 3 euros 1kg but low calories,so after 30 mins u r hungry again. Serbia

my gosh you have made this video so boring is would be easier to watch paint dry.

If Talapia is the only fish you like, then you don’t like fish

Oh wow! Tilapia is the only fish i like but i never thought of the Facts u said. I used to live in a farm where they have tilapia so i know that u are saying the truth

Tilapias are very popular in the Philippines but They’re bottom feeders and they taste gross! So I’m very glad I don’t eat them.
Salmon and cod are better.

I got a 5 dollar bag of tilapia for 8 servings worth, thinking I got a deal and now I’m thinking I screwed myself cause it says “Product of China”, oh well, guess it’s still better than consuming a bat of cheetos or something

It depends on the farm, not the fish itself. Simple concept, example, if you want to go out and eat, you choose the best restaurant that suits you i.e. cleaniness, taste, environment, etc. Same goes as tilapia farm. So before you go buy tilapia, just do a bit of research and ask the seller where it came from. Simple.

The logic here is lacking. Farmed tilapia is lower in mercury because the farmers can carefully control the quality of the water…yeah fish eat shit, what do you think they’re eating in the ocean? Steak and eggs? They’re bottom feeders who’s whole point of existence is to filter the ocean of doo doo. The only difference is that the farmers can keep plastic and heavy metals out of their water supply, which you can’t control in the ocean. Literal metric fuck tons of radiocative nuclear waste was dumped into the ocean after Fukishima, the “Wild caught Jumping Jamaican Chadfish” you’re eating may have been chewing on a dead body before it was scooped up by a fisherman. So i’d think twice about proclaiming that Wild caught fish is guaranteed to be more healthy than farmed. Yea Tilapia is Omega-6 dominant but it is a lean fish…only around 2g of fat per filet so that is also misleading. Go ahead and get mercury poisoning but when you can no longer do long division don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The fish you recommended were all wild caught. Is there any farm raised fish that you do recommend? xoxo from Arizona

When you raise it yourself with high quality food such as organic compost worms and Convict Cichlids fry and meal worms as we do in our aquaponic system it is great to consume. Get your omega 3s from chia seeds. To each there own.

I WOULDNT eat ANY Pacific Ocean FISH or Sea Vegetables: research Thomas: FUKUSHIMA Powerplant MELTDOWN.

The biggest question is what do they feed this fish? I was at a feed mill making pangasius feed and walked towards a sack of ingredient. They panicked and asked for my reassurance I hadn’t touched the dangerous chemical.

Low mercury fish ok like trout high mercury fish harm our health

I have access to a locally caught fresh tilapia in Colombia, would you still advise against eating tilapia from this source?

well, i never heard the name of this fish, my husband brought it from walmart so i come to u -tube to search to know about this fish. Now i am confused i should cook or throw.?

The whole point of talapia is that is cheap. The three fish you suggest are literally some of the most expensive on the market. Not all of us have celebrity model money, Thomas.

Any negative things said about Swai fish is negative propaganda because the USA commercial fish market would I.E. Catfish, Talipia or Whiting would take a major hit if Swai was raised here. This fish is better tasting than either of those. I’ve been eating Swai aka Basa for years. This fish is net raised not allowed to bottom dwell. But this video just put out negatives deterring you to buy..

Will the other fish work for ceviche. I was told by a local restaurant to use tilapia in the dish, I need to find a new fish.

Do your own research, people. Then go ahead and eat your Talapia.

My favorite?? Lake Superior White fish.  YUM!! Fresh water, melts in your mouth

That’s bad taste to eat Pangasius fish as anything else produced in Vietnam or those Asian countries.

thanks for the info. i convinced my wife to buy it for me after years of her telling me it was bad you. it was delicious, cheap and so easy to make. its a very flavorful white fish.

Yes but tilapia is a white fish. What are the safest white fish options?

Dude I didn’t come to see you, I literally wanted to know what’s better than tilapia and you pop up, you’re the reason I’m doing intermittent fasting �� you cover everything. Subscribed!

I actually wanted to argue with you. But you do raise valid points however what you failed to mention is Tilapia can be grown in plant based water. Aquaponics. Which serves as a two edged sword. Now when you mentioned only 5% is from america then u mentioned the alternatives it made me realize more than anything you’re promoting local industry whixh is fair. But u make it seem whatever is imported was farmed under poor health standards. Mmm this is ignorant. Now this is where I tell you as a fish farmer. This video has agreeable points but biased and agenda based

So poisons are tested. Are antibiotics? Watch this and you understand that you STILL DO NOT want to eat this fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9Enx74kjA Ever increasing loads of antibiotics and many other chemicals, fish bleeding out of their bodies and gills as a result. Video is in German, look for good Auto-translate subs in English!

grow your own food, catch your own fish, raise or hunt your own meat. If you are not in an area of the world that permits this easily -rethink your life, your future self will thank you, I guarantee it.

Swai fish is actually quite delicious if you deep fry with Sylvia’s fish fry seasoning mix and soak it in natural lemon juice at least two hours prying to cooking. My wife, kids, I, and our cats love it ��. Just season to taste and it’s all good ������

This is crap…. you can tell by the way this is being presented. Just google the Mekong river pollution Vietnam where they farm this fish and the following comes up: “Vietnam bears the overwhelming brunt of the pollution because Vietnam is the last country where the Mekong flows, and all the rubbish comes down from the countries through which the river flows through (Dat, 2015), in a process known as “transboundary transmission” They’re not denying in this video the various chemicals found in the fish they are just saying they are at safe levels…. safe enough so that you’ll buy and consume enough of them to make them a healthy profit before you croak. This fish smelled strange and tasted strange and it led me here.

Cod has too much sodium to be of benefit to me. Halibut and Haddock are a bit pricey. Any other suggestions???

You are correct Sir and This is what I tell every other site that talks shit about Swai “You are full of shit, and just hating on the stainable food source so you can boost up cost for other fisheries. Major chains like Walmart would not risk law suits for selling tainted food sources Dumb Asses!”

Risk blah blah blah…
Let’s not forget that if you choose to eat something “risky” and contaminated, it’s not the only contamination you are getting as all of it is accumulative. So saying that you have to eat n kilograms of pangasius to get sick is irrelevant because we are constantly consuming pretty significant amounts of toxic chemicals or metals thus we’ll see consequences of that sooner than we expect.

Thanks for info on this fish, so conclusion is safe to eat or not safe to eat? i like this fish cause easy to handle no bone and to make buttered fish or nestum fish with curry leaves, nice������

i’m happy i found this video. i was looking into panga filet because people around me said it was dangerous to consume.
i’m happy that some real trustable info is out there. i’m so done with all those food bloggers and their “health risks”

in the recommended videos right now are titles like “the truth about pangasius” and “9 fish you shouldn’t eat”…

ive never eaten a tilapia that didnt taste like dirty dank ass water. they have the texture of a wet sponge too.

Fired this fish rivals halibut, You fish snobs will say otherwise but you probably never even had halibut so…….

Thomas don’t give partial truth.. 3 month is a hormone raised Tilapia. A healthy Tilapia is raised and harvest at 9 month…Nice try helping ur business…. Don’t belive this clown video..

I am eating one just now in Europe/Latvia. I cooked it and i tastes good.:D

you know mate This makes a lot of sense to me when i first went to China 2008 i hated the fish there even in top hotels my friends took me n hated fish just as much couple of years ago in China again, but sadly cod is now farmed in Norway n Denmark n many other European countries so it looks like we have to go to small seaside towns to buy fish from the fishermen we don’t want to eat the crap they farm sad but the reality

“This video and study is kindly sponsored by the Pangasus and the Pharma industry” ��.
Embarrasing Wageningen Uni.

Tilapia straight out of the water is plumper and taste way better than store bought.

If it came from a fish farm, Don’t eat it. Aquaculture is by definition is problematic. Think pork farm where pigs breath in other pigs feces.

So many explanation but they are not answer about the fish, safe or not

Thanks for the video, but it sounds like we should eat fish in moderation. Substitute fish with food like walnuts and beans.

You shouldn’t be killing and eating animals. Plain stupid. You can get omega 3 from walnuts.

smh. I don’t put nothing pass the food industry. cause it say wild caught,doesn’t mean it is. at the end of the day vegan or not,we don’t know what the hell,we putting in our bodies. THESE PUNKS WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A DOLLAR. all u can do is drink water and sweat the toxins out much as you can.

I eat a lot of tilapia, but I also eat flax seeds and other foods that are high in omega 6. I think that if you’re aware that it’s high in omega 3, you can adjust your diet to compensate for it

Why would you eat a fish which has eaten soy for all it’s life…. There’s no soy in the water normally so this fish has had an abnormal life.

So, the scientists can’t measure alot of toxics so it’s deemed ‘safe’. There are zero benefits of eating this trash other than that your stomach is filled.

If you think that a poor country like vietnam would choose sustainable food production over profit think again. Like all other businesses they know how to get through audits. What happens after that nobody will ever know.

Thats why I eat Alaskan pollock. I know that it’s been in the ocean for all it’s life, far away from humans.

But, to each his own! More pollock for me:)

Thomas is right about foreign tilapia. They are often raised in basically what amount to sewer ponds. I have raised tilapia on an aquaponics farm where they were fed a natural diet of worms, bugs, algae and alfalfa and the water was constantly filtered. The taste of fresh, sustainable, farm raised tilapia fed a natural diet is anything but bland. The Omega 3’s and 6’s are in perfect balance and they are just as much or more healthy to eat as any other fish (that isn’t salmon or sardines) and are an excellent source of high quality protein. I tried some tilapia imported from China once and about gagged. It was slimy and had a bland, but slightly foul flavor. Salmon and sardines are great fish, because they eat great food. Fish are what they eat/ate, just as Thomas says and the same goes for tilapia.

Tilapia have a bad rap because people only refer to the cesspool raised fish when pontificating on the merits of various fish. If you have a scary story to tell about a certain popular fish, demonizing it grabs peoples attention and gets you more customers because you are so smart and wise to warn people of such devil fish. Of course cesspool tilapia are going to be a low quality, inflammatory fish, just as salmon and any other fish would be if raised in the same conditions. Find an American supplier of tilapia, preferably from an aquaponics farm, and buy fresh or frozen from them and enjoy all the delicious tilapia you want. If you cannot find an American source, the Regal Lakes tilapia found at Costco is raised in lake farms with mountain spring water and is probably the best imported tilapia. They are fed soybeans and corn, so the nutrition profile will reflect that. I would only eat it occasionally, but it still has a decent Omega 3/6 ratio and plenty of vitamin D and B12 and beats processed protein any day.

Thomas, you tell people to not eat farm raised salmon. That is good. Salmon do not do well as a farmed fish. They taste nasty and their nutrition quality is poor. But everybody pushing salmon only highlights the nutritional benefits of wild caught fish. However, the same reasoning does not apply to farm grown tilapia harvested from well run farms with clean water and natural food diets. In fact it is the opposite. I’ve had wild caught tilapia. They are not so pleasant to eat and, as you noted, they will eat anything. Being in the wild doesn’t change that and that includes bottom feeding, and any garbage they can find. Wild tilapia are more toxic than any salt water fish like sharks or tuna. They also absorb the heavy metals and other toxins from the heavily polluted fresh water environment.

Correctly farmed tilapia are an excellent, sustainable and healthy food source. You harp on a sustainable supply of fish. Well raised tilapia are one of those sustainable fish. Instead of scaring people away from it to make a buck, we should be eating more tilapia from American farmers so that it is worth it for them to produce here-using quality processes and diets. Unfortunately most American tilapia farms are suffering from guilt by association with an inferior, imported poop fish that should never be consumed by anybody regardless of the species. My family grew up eating fresh tilapia from our family farm as one of our main protein sources. We all remained lean and healthy while consuming large quantities of this tasty, farm raised fish.

its like saying do not eat mushrooms because they grow on shit.

catfish are scavengers and bottom feeders
they eat dead things and love rotting things
slow and fat they just trudge along the bottom of the bed.

What about wild tilapia….. And the name is not scary at all..lake Victoria in East Africa has wild tilapia and many more rivers and lakes in Africa…why eat artificial and base your assumptions on that?

You know it is very sad that your video is saying that much poisoning substances are bad less is better, it is stillsafe to eat! These poisonous substances mean and prove that the water and the technology is not environment friendly or sustainable. So I do not understand your philosophie toward this contaminated fish.

So… let’s assume it’s perfectly safe for consumption.
The more important question is whether it’s a sustainable and ethical industry?

There is more than one type of cod. Red is riddled with worms and other parasites, people will want to go for Blue cod as it is fit for consumption.

I Eat swai 2 deep fried fillets cost $4 and I can make 4 fish fry sandwiches on hot dog buns
I see people buying salmon and red snapper on welfare cards all the time but they are societal leeches
Drink Essentia alkali bottled water