Heart Healthy Seafood

So you want seafood to be part of your high potassium/low sodium/low fat heart healthy diet. As I demonstrated in my salmon analysis: not all seafood is as good as we have all been lead to believe. Thus, I will enumerate the types of seafood you should allow in your heart healthy diet:

1. Pink Salmon (1/2 fillet or 124 g): 513mg potassium, 107mg sodium, 5.5g fat [5:1 potassium to sodium] - remember pink salmon is the only salmon that qualifies as heart healthy!
2. Yellowfin Tuna (4 oz): 645mg potassium, 53mg sodium, 1.4g fat [12:1 potassium to sodium]
3. Halibut (4 oz): 653mg potassium, 78mg sodium, 3.3g fat [8:1 potassium to sodium]
4. Cod (4 oz): 586 mg potassium, 103 mg sodium, 0.9g fat [6:1 potassium to sodium]
5. Tilapia (4 oz): 424mg potassium, 64mg sodium, 2.8g fat [7:1 potassium to sodium]

Keep any or all of these 5 types of seafood in your fridge or freezer and you have a high potassium/low sodium/low fat hearth healthy seafood contribution to your diet.

It should go without saying, but I'll say it anyway: serve any of these seafoods breaded or sauteed in butter and they are no longer heart healthy - the fat you introduce via breading or sauteing cancels out all the positives.

The best way to prepare seafood and preserve the "heart healthy benefits": grilled (consider a George Foreman Grill for ease & simplicity). Feel free to add any sodium free spices before grilling; but grilling your seafood is the only way to prepare it in a heart healthy manner.