Calories in Tuna Fish
Low Fat Recipes for Diet Planning

Written by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites

The Diet Fisherman's Wharf, Keeping Calories Low in Fish

Fish is among the lowest in calories when it comes to protein in your diet plan. So go for the gold - but not the goldfish.

Preparation is everything when it comes to your diet. The more detailed the plan, the more impressive the results in the area of lost pounds, yes - pounds that you'll never wish to find again.

When preparing fish the healthiest cooking methods include:

Baking
Grilling
Oven & Pan-Roasting
Broiling
Boiling

Ingredients Added to Fish & Seafood Selections Impact Nutritional Values, Calories & Fatty Acid Content

Aside from the way you prepare your foods, you'll also want to use the healthier ingredients available at the market for your recipes.

These reflect the process that the manufacturer used to prepare the product - which can sometimes make or break your lower caloric recipes - as well as put a dent in the rate of fat loss.

For example, when dining out do you often order a fish sandwich to keep calories contained while dieting? If so, the calories from one restaurant to another can differ greatly.

The amounts even differ - at times, significantly - than what is referenced on the restaurant's official nutrition guide. This is because one server might have a light hand with the tartar sauce while the other barely spreads it on the sandwich.

And when it comes to tartar sauce, it's very 'beefy' in fat and calories.

Other ingredients to monitor include dipping sauces and marinades.

All varieties of fish make excellent options for a dieter's menu.

But as low in caloric and fat values as this super food is - the addition of unhealthy ingredients as well as commercial processing methods used to bring the product from the water to your kitchen pantry will impact the nutritional values significantly.

We need look no further than the most popular seafood found in the modern pantry; tuna. In its raw state, three ounces of the yellowfin species contains 93 calories.

When prepared using dry heat, the energy values shift slightly upwards to 110 - but take note that all foods tend to 'cook down' once they are exposed to heat so those three ounces that were the end-product began at a higher amount.

For example, a four ounce ground beef patty will cook down to three ounces once heat enters the process.

Now if we take that skinny tuna and we pack it in spring water after processing, the values remain relatively the same (full nutritional data listed below).

But if we pack it in oil, even when it is drained it will contain almost double the amount of caloric values; dietary fat will also be greatly increased.

While omega 3's found in fish are considered a healthy burst, too much fat can cancel out benefits.

Such is the case with oil-packed varieties.

Tuna Fish Nutrition Facts, Oil-Packed COMPARED TO Water-Packed Tuna