Sockeye salmon

Sockeye salmon fish belong to the Pacific salmon fish family. By the way, sockeye salmon meat is considered even tastier than pink salmon and chum salmon, while the taste of this fish is much richer than other representatives of salmon fish. Due to its high fat content, sockeye salmon meat serves as an ideal basis for the manufacture of smoked meats, in particular excellent balyks. Steamed sockeye salmon are very tasty, and are also used to prepare fish salads, as well as cold eatery dishes.

Sockeye salmon can be prepared according to a variety of recipes - for example, with moderate salting, its rather fatty meat is a delicately gastronomic product with a special specific taste. Sockeye salmon fish make both everyday and festive dishes great. And gourmet sockeye salmon is often used to prepare exotic dishes.

It is worth noting that sockeye salmon is most popular not for its caviar, but for its delicious meat. Although sockeye salmon caviar also differs in saturated red, eggs are relatively small in size. By the way, due to the fact that in recent years the natural reserves of sockeye salmon have decreased significantly, its caviar on sale can be found quite rarely.

The benefits of sockeye salmon

Sockeye salmon fish is the owner of not only unique meat of bright red color, but also a rich vitamin-mineral composition, which is so necessary for the full-fledged activity of the human body. With regular use, the benefits of sockeye salmon are to normalize metabolic processes, restore the balance of nutrients and trace elements.

Sockeye salmon includes vitamins of groups A, B, E, PP, C, D, K, along with important trace elements - iron, fluorine, zinc, chromium, molybdenum, nickel - and macronutrients - magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium, chlorine and phosphorus. The calorie content of sockeye salmon per 100 grams is about 157 kcal.

Fluorine and phosphoric acid are considered very important components of sockeye salmon fish, which are directly involved in the construction of many enzymes (phosphatases) - the main engines of chemical reactions at the cellular level. Phosphorus salts, in turn, are a mandatory element of the tissues of the human skeleton.

The benefits of sockeye salmon are due to the preservation of the health of the mucous membranes and skin, the normalization of the activities of the nervous and digestive systems. The delicious meat of this fish is a wonderful natural antioxidant, as well as a regulator of blood sugar levels.

However, with all its beneficial properties, fish of fatty varieties, and sockeye salmon belongs to those, are not recommended for use in the presence of duodenal ulcers of the stomach and intestine, as well as in some diseases associated with the hematopoietic system.