Cooking Fat Fish and Lean Fish

Appears in
Professional Cooking: 8th Edition

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2014

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The fat content of fish ranges from 0.5 percent to 20 percent.
  • Lean fish are those that are low in fat. Examples: flounder, sole, cod, red snapper, bass, perch, halibut, pike.
  • Fat fish are those that are high in fat. Examples: salmon, tuna, trout, butterfish, mackerel.