Tuna in brine v tuna in spring water

shirlgirl2004

Greenqueen wrote: »

If anyone is interested, we bought tuna in Netto today. 185g in brine was 48p- that was chunks. The flaked stuff was cheaper but cant remember exactly how much. You may not recognise the brand-"deepblue", but tuna is tuna whoever canned it in my opinion.

But is it dolphin friendly?

Jem8472

Also check the price of the single cans and the packs.
A month or so ago I noticed in Tesco that the single tins worked out about 40 or 50p cheaper than the pack of tesco 4 tuna.

LJM

i know the salt content is high in brine but i do tend to go for which ever is on offer and stock up

FunkyFairy

I always buy in spring water. Tastes cleaner and less salty.

Lily-Lu

I don't buy tinned fish in spring water, so have no idea if salt is added.

But several months ago there was a discussion on another forum about avoiding feeding ferrets sardines/tuna in brine. For years people have been recommending oil, or tom sauce varieties. I knew that they all contained salt, but didn't know how much. So, I did a little research while out shopping (Morrisoms), and on the Tesco website. There really is very little difference between the brine and the others. In fact, one shop's own brand sardines actually contained slightly higher salt in the tom sauce than in the brine version.

Different brands will vary, but it's something worth checking out if anyone is just avoiding the brine version and paying more for another because they assume it contains less salt;)

LearningToSave.

in spring water is fab if you are on a diet or just lazy like me.....i find a tuna sandwich can be made straight from the tin if its springwater.....whereas brine etc need to be mixed with mayo etc.

Sunnyday

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

But is it dolphin friendly?

I`ve had the tuna before from Netto and although i`ve not been there for a while i do remember that it is dolphin friendly.
They sometimes have other brands too but all of the ones that Netto stock say dolphin friendly on the tin.
Now that i know that it`s still this price i shall be making more of an effort to get there to stock up.:D
HTH
SD

bigdoozer

Oh it makes me mad though. brine means they buy the water and add salt to it which cost them more. Oil the same. So why why why is water in water more expensive?????? Spring my *ss, do they think they buy the spring water from Volvic or Buxton spring in 500cc bottles just to add to Tuna?????
It should be at least 20% cheaper as they have to add nothing, and lets face it, ALL water springs from somewhere, spleen emptied......

juliapenguin

I've only bought the tuna in spring water once when it was on offer and that particular pack tasted identical to the tuna in brine - I was expecting it to be less salty and it wasn't. Maybe I got a duff pack? I've not bothered since but maybe I should give it another try.

Caterina

sarahsarah wrote: »

I know this is not related to the question, but before I was veggie I used to get tuna in sunflower oil, nicer than both the others i thought!!

If you use the oil one, make sure to save the oil to fry garlic in it and add tinned tomatoes and chopped parsley to make a tuna flavoured pasta sauce.