Comments on: Seafood action http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/02/11/seafood-action/ Science served wet and salty Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Miriam Goldstein http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/02/11/seafood-action/#comment-826 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:35:43 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.wordpress.com/?p=247#comment-826 Now THAT’S some powerful motivation to avoid orange roughy. Unless, I suppose, you’re in need of, um, powerful motivation…but probably there are cheaper options.

(Also, I tried to figure out if escolar is ALSO a slow growing deep water fish, but quick ‘n’ dirty googling failed me.)

]]> By: Hao Ye http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/02/11/seafood-action/#comment-819 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:58:07 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.wordpress.com/?p=247#comment-819 According to my food science book, orange roughy contains wax esters that are indigestible: consumption can lead to “watery diarrhea”. Wikipedia fails to note this, but does indicate that escolar, which also contains these wax esters, is sometimes marketed as orange roughy. (ironically, escolar is also sold as “white tuna”, thus confusing the people looking for albacore, as well)

I guess the conclusion to this story is that any orange roughy you buy might not be the slow-growing deep-water fish, but rather something that may give you gastrointestinal problems instead. yay?

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