ORANGE ROUGHY

Hey Everyone! I'm wondering if anyone can give me some insight to one of my favorite fish, Orange Roughy. If you consume this fish as part of your regular diet, you may already know where I'm headed with this and if not, you're in for a real treat. :)

With a serving as little as 3 oz, Orange Roughy packs 19 grams of protein with only 90 calories and 1 gram of unsaturated fat. Now, if you eat this on a frequent basis (say 3x's a day for three days) you'll most likely experience the intersting...(There is no tactful way of stating this so I'm just going to put it out there)- You'll see large drops of oil in your urine. Now, I could understand this if this was a fatty fish, but it is not so how can there be so much visible oil and yet so little fat?

I've discussed this with a handful of people and noone seems to have an answer, possible conclusion is your body just can not digest the oil?? Just not sure what the correct answer is so if you know the mystery behind this one, please let me know. Thanks!

That's interesting, and I don't have a scientific answer like some here may <cough>PM<cough>...anyway, I would wonder if it isn't the roughy alone but the total fats in the diet that are causing this. A 3.5 oz serving of roughy has 6.3 grams of total fat. If your diet includes other healthy fats, plus supplements like CLA and fish oil it may just be that your body cannot absorb and process all that fat so it eliminates it.

I will be very interested to hear other thoughts.

Being an avid fisherman, I've seen numerous articles that state NOT to eat orange roughy because of thier high amounts of MERCURY. Long story short...you eat a fish that has mercury. That mercury is processed in the body and turned into methylmercury. This is what you see after you do your "deed"

http://www.foodstandards.govt.nz/_srcfiles/FS_Mercury_in_fish_final.pdf

honestly thought PM, do you your push ups with an encyclopedia below your face?

hats off to your contribution here though :)

Pm, that is exactly what I was going to say... I need to be quicker next time. ;)

LOL...I leave the "light work" to you, PM. Seriously, though, I knew if anyone would know it would be you and once again you didn't disappoint! Thanks for the answer.

That's a really good suggestion, Vic. Tilapia is a great choice...

3 oz.
110 calories
2.5g fat
22g protein
0g carbs

Thank you for responding. I can assure you it is definetly the orange roughy. Not anything else unhealthy or otherwise. I know other competitors who experience the same thing, who actually called me to the attention of it and that was when I wanted to see what it was all about... If you try eating the fish for a couple days in a row, more than once a day, you will no doubt see what I'm speaking of. You really can't understand it untill you see it for yourself. :)

That fish taste so good. I love to broil it.

Now I want to eat it all day long and see what happens! hahaha

Girl!!! This stuff is no joke. :D (Well, it is funny)!! That's the thing though, you do have to eat a high quantity of it in order to get the oil, but 3 times a day for a couple days should do it.

Methylmercury is no joke!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylmercury

lol!

I LOVE orange roughy, but I know exactly what you are talking about LOL!