Tilapia, farmed

FDA/EPA Best choice (listed as “Tilapia”) in the FDA/EPA Advice about Eating Fish (revised October 2021). How much and how often is their advice, not ours.

Composition per 100 g as eaten — cooked, or canned and drained. Mercury is FDA’s species mean, as FDA publishes it; for species FDA does not cover, the sample-weighted mean of the surveys listed. Dioxins + PCBs are survey means (or a median, where noted) per gram of fish as sold, in each survey’s own TEQ scheme. Tagged farmed: the US imports 96% of its tilapia (Mississippi State University Extension, from NOAA trade data), and those imports come from farms in Asia and Latin America (Western Regional Aquaculture Center); US tilapia is farmed too.