Few kitchen jobs are simpler than opening a tin. And if the contents are tasty, exceptionally nutritious and a bargain, then we're on to a winner. With tinned fish, there's plenty of variety: sardines, pilchards, mackerel, tuna, salmon - each kind with its own flavour and uses, although sardines (and pilchards, which are a kind of sardine) are the most beneficial.
Nutritional value
Oily fish are so called because, unlike white fish, their oil is distributed throughout their flesh. These oils are highly beneficial. They are low in saturated, 'bad' fat, and exceptionally high in the long-chain omega-3 oils, the 'good' fat. Fish are the only rich source of these good oils in the UK diet and are essential to the proper development of the brain and blood vessels. Embryos, babies and young children have a particular need because their brains are still developing.
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