Black thread things in fresh tuna

lil_me

I think, tuna is one of the fish that doesn't usually have worms in.

Horasio

Dr_DiNg_DoNg wrote: »

Anisakis worms, you get them in all sorts of fish, I can recall working in a restaurant when I was a kid and one of my jobs was pulling worms out of the cod flesh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisakis

That has put me off fish now:eek:

(But thank you for posting)

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I would be very careful to cook the fish well.
You can catch worms from undercooked fish and some worms do lay eggs in muscle tissue and I don't think it's just the tapeworm.Which fish get too.
Personally the thought of eating anything which has parasites in it and the problems they can cause makes me feel queasy.

linni

STOP! I had tuna yesterday and now I feel sick.

mandragora_2

We dissected dogfish for Biology A level - so many parasites in it, I'd NEVER eat rock salmon in the whole of my life. Many years later, I bought cod, same story again - full of white wormy squigglers - grooo. So, another one on my 'thanks but no thanks' fish list!! Since then, whenever I've prepared fish, I always marinate it first with lemon juice - a friend from the caribbean told me that lemon and salt are the best ways of 'cleaning' fish (think salt cod) as it flushes any nasties that might be lurking in it right out. I hope she's right, because it seems to have worked for me since then, and I love fish!

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

It's only obvious that if your'e eating what's been something previously alive that's capable of contracting disease and parasites your'e going to come up against them now and again.
Would you know if you had a piece of "measly pork",probably not but you'd eat it and not think twice (unless you knew what your'e looking for).Tapeworm lay eggs in the flesh not the gut of the pig and undercooked measly pork can pass it on.
Most animals have worms anyway,the ones that live in the gut or lungs are the first things to abandon the corpse after death.
It's only the ones that live or breed in the muscle tissue that are trapped and stay sometimes alive in the body of the animal.
Remember people you are what you eat,literally.

bexxie90

ooh feel sick.....argh

Dr_DiNg_DoNg

lil_me wrote: »

I think, tuna is one of the fish that doesn't usually have worms in.

Anisakis is a parasitic nematode whose larvae occupy several types of fish and cephalopods such as cod, sardine, tuna, mackerel and squid as intermediate hosts.

Google........

Smurggle

You get those black threads in tinned tuna as well sometimes, I always assumed they were blood vessels of some description like you get in any meat.

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MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

Would you know if you had a piece of "measly pork",probably not but you'd eat it and not think twice (unless you knew what your'e looking for).Tapeworm lay eggs in the flesh not the gut of the pig and undercooked measly pork can pass it on.

Yes, parasites are in most fish/meat and I'm amazed we don't hear more about them bearing in mind the damage they can do. Or maybe we just attribute the damage to something else
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/11/removal_of_a_parasitic_worm_from_the_brain.php