How Much Tuna Is Safe To Eat
There has been a lot of talk in the media lately about mercury in fish. If you, like my family enjoy tuna sandwiches and the likes, you’re probably wondering how many cans of tuna you can still safely eat each week. The bad news is that there isn’t just a set number, since it depends a lot on how much you weight. In other words, a small woman can eat a lot less tuna safely than a 250 lb man.
The good news is that there is a Tuna Calculator that will tell you exactly how many cans of tuna you can safely consume per week. Once you punch in your weight, the calculator will tell you how many cans of albacore tuna and how many cans of light tuna you can have per week and still stay under the FDA recommended levels of mercury.
By the way, if you have kids under the age of 5, the FDA recommends that you don’t feed them any albacore tuna as it tends to be much higher in mercury and those levels could be dangerous to young children.