escolar

Is the use of escolar as tuna a regional thing, or is some escolar a pink/red color?

If you ate escolar, you'd really want to know it before you put that fish in your mouth.

Eighty-four percent of the white tuna samples were actually escolar (52 of the 62) (Figure 10).

A cooked Escolar will taste like it was fried in butter, even if you put it in the pan totally dry.

Put the damn escolar in a round can next to the tuna, priced less than the tuna (raise the price of tuna).

You can legally sell escolar a fish that if eaten too much is poisonous.

For example, > I don't think histamines have anything to do with the GI side effects of overconsuming escolar.

They're using escolar (the ex-lax fish) in place of albacore (white) tuna!

If escolar is too dangerous to label as Tuna I am sure they can find other fish that are not.

You know it is escolar when it's a pure white and opaque fish with a buttery taste, which although mislabeled, is not at all unpleasant.

Order 'white tuna' and you're almost always going to get escolar/albacore.

There's literally a name for the GI illness escolar causes: keriorrhea.

But if suppliers make more money selling escolar as "tuna", it will make it that much harder to by escolar as escolar.

However, it's usually marked "Albacore White Tuna" to signify that it is not escolar but in fact albacore tuna.

SO...maybe go do an experiment: Go eat a nice big portion of escolar (nee "white tuna") and report back.

Several years ago, every sushi restaurant I frequented (in South Florida) stopped mislabeling Escolar as "White Tuna".

Escolar contains a minute amount of a toxin that will irritate your gastro system.

Before that it's more translucent and slightly pinkish (Escolar is opaque white).

Oddly enough, I've never had cooked Escolar.