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Reviews > Food > Meal Ingredients > SafeCatch Tuna Packs > Test Report by Duane LawrenceSafeCatch Elite Wild Tuna Initial Report - June 7, 2017 Long Term Report - September 10, 2017 By Duane Lawrence Tester Information
Nutritional Information
Product Information SafeCatch Elite Wild Tuna comes in 3 oz (85 g) packages. The manufacturer indicates on the packaging that the tuna has 21 grams (0.74 oz) protein, is sustainably caught and additive free. The ingredients list shows skipjack tuna as the only ingredient. Tuna packets are sold in either 12 or 24 pouch boxes. SafeCatch Elite Wild Tuna is verified non GMO, is listed as the American Pregnancy association official tuna and certified for paleo diets. Each packet is easily accessed with a tear open pouch and is made ready to eat although the manufacture recommends needing the pouch first and then let the tuna absorb the pouches liquid prior to eating. On both the web page and the packaging SafeCatch talks about the way in which their tuna is sustainably caught and that their tuna is the lowest mercury levels on the market with every tuna being tested for mercury levels with a maximum limit of 0.1 parts per million. The SafeCatch tuna website has a variety of interesting information on their products and tuna in general. There is also a question and answer section which answers questions about how their fish is caught, their testing methods how the product is cooked and their Artisan cooking process, nothing is added or drained during the cooking process. They recommend when eating the tuna to empty it into a bowl, chop up the steak and mix it, apparently the tuna will reabsorb its natural oils and juices for a moist and delicious taste. They also talk about how their tuna is caught without using FADs or long lines and they are a proud partner of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program. For packaging the website says that they hand cut and hand pack solid wild tuna steaks to seal in all the natural oils and nutrients then they slow cook each one once to ensure quality of taste. SafeCatch packages their tuna in BPA-free packaging and has the packages tested by a third-party lab to ensure that there are no BPA's in the materials. The actual pouches are made out of polypropylene food grade plastic and are coated with a very thin layer of aluminum to create a shelf stable product. The sealed packages have a best-before date of two years. SafeCatch has also tested their product for radiation. They state that they don't test every fish but they do send samples of finished product to accredited three-party labs for radiation to ensure their product is not contaminated. General ObservationsFor backpacking the SafeCatch Elite Wild Tuna is packaged in a small disposable package that is easily opened. Once opened the tuna has what appears to be natural oils and juices and a small tuna stake. Everything about the packaging and web site reassures me that the tuna is of high quality, sustainably caught and contains nothing but tuna. The additional testing for BPA's, mercury and radiation is also very reassuring. I am looking forward to seeing how the tuna tastes in a variety of dishes out on some backpacking trips.
For usability the packets are very easy to open although getting everything out
is a little challenging. What I ended up doing is cutting the packet open
along the sides as well as using the easy tear opening at the top so that I
could acquire all of the tuna a juice. This was especially needed when I
pre-smooshed the tuna in the bag so that it would absorbed the juice before I
opened it. This is important as if I did not either pre-mix the tuna or
put it in a bowl and then mix it the juice would not be re-incorporated into
the tuna, resulting a dry product. The manufacturer actually says this on
their web site so it was not an issue but unless I had read it there I might
not have known this and ended up with dry tuna every time I ate it. Might
be worth adding this very important bit of information on the packaging as
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