Does this sound like a complete meal?
Prompted by the thread above, I thought I'd ask this. I think a lot of folks have no idea how fish are classified as to diet and it could be important. I had to learn for Oban's sake.
Do you know what the term Whitefish really means? Nope, I thought it was the species we fish for, Lake Whitefish too. Not. I thought it was a bit strange that species was used so widely as a description though. I pretty well had to find out when Oban's Nutriscan saliva test came back with Whitefish on the caution list. Whitefish is low fat and he's not to have a high fat diet so Whitefish would be logical one to turn to but he can't have it due to food sensitivity.
The other main term is - Oily Fish. Huh? Not another colour? Well if he has to be on low fat then Oily fish is obviously out too. But what do the terms really mean?
Whitefish is the descriptor applied to fish that store most of their fat in their liver. They do not have as much fat as Oily Fish, which have fat in other places in their body and more fat over all. It has nothing really to do with colour (except Oily Fish do tend to have darker flesh). To make it even more confusing Lake Whitefish, the species, are a member of the Salmon family, making them an Oily Fish. Not as oily as Salmon.
Not even my Vets, plural, could give me the answer. I had to google and found several confirming websites that were mostly cooking sites. Some of what we might consider to be fish, such as shark and tuna, I'm still not sure about, sites disagreed. Here are a couple of sites:
Here, fishy fishy… Fish facts for you
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