Elite Purest Wild Tuna Canned - 5 oz. Solaray

Safe Catch - Elite Purest Wild Tuna Canned - 5 oz. (142 g.)

Safe Catch Canned Elite Wild Tuna is the highest purity tuna offered by Safe Catch! They handpick premium skipjack tuna, then test each and every one to ensure that its mercury content is at least ten times (10x) lower than the FDA limit. They pack only top quality tuna in their cans and that’s it. No fillers, no additives. It’s GMO free and the cans are BPA free. Now you can enjoy 100% Worry Free tuna. No other brand can assure this level of purity.

Safe Catch ensures purity for Expecting Moms, Kids, and Athletes. They raw pack and cook-in-can to seal in all the oils vital to your brain, muscles, and recovery. Most brands lose up to 80% of their Omega 3’s in precook. You also get more than 100% of your daily recommended value for all of your essential amino acids in each can.

Making it Pure
Safe Catch's tuna is sustainably caught from managed stocks. Their tuna is traceable from sea to table and they buy from captains whose catch methods minimize environmental impact. Their albacore tuna is caught exclusively with pole and line to minimize bycatch and is Monterey Bay Aquarium "Green Rank" Standard. Their Elite Tuna is school caught utilizing FAD-free purse seines to minimize bycatch and carbon footprint, and International Seafood Sustainability Foundation guideline.

Nutrition
Safe Catch tuna is not packed in water or in oil. In fact, they don’t add any sort of filler. They raw pack whole tuna in each can by hand and add nothing except salt (where noted). They pack this way (fresh-pack) to retain all the naturally available nutrients and Omega 3 oils. Everything that comes in each can is great to eat. 

Tuna is a lot more than just Omega 3s. Tuna has B vitamins, Niacin, Potassium, Selenium, Thiamin, and all nine essential amino acids. Now, as it relates to just Omega 3s, there seems to be a debate among the experts as to whether pills are effective. If you google “fish vs. Omega 3 pills” you’ll get both sides of the coin. Safe Catch is not an expert but they can say this, you’ll definitely get the benefits of seafood by eating seafood.

How Pure Is It? You Decide

• Safe Catch's limit for Safe Catch Elite Wild Tuna is ten times (10x) stricter than the FDA mercury action limit
• Safe Catch Elite Wild Tuna is the official tuna of the American Pregnancy Association
• Safe Catch Elite Wild Tuna is a Healthy Child Healthy World (powered by The Environmental Working Group) Trusted Solution for children
• Their limit for Safe Catch Wild Albacore Tuna is three and a third times stricter than the FDA mercury limit
• Safe Catch sets the strictest mercury limit of any Albacore tuna brand

Safe Catch just packs the fish. No additives, filler, soy, GMO's, gluten, or pyrophosphate. They pack raw hand-cut fish then cook-in-can to seal in all the nutrients. They use environmentally friendly BPA-free can linings.

• 1 can Safe Catch tuna (Don't drain, no oil or water added)     
• 2 tbsp plain Greek yogurt
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• diced celery
• diced red onion
• diced green onion
• dill
• ground pepper
• 2 slices sourdough
• minced garlic
• spinach
• Roma tomato
• crumbled goat cheese
• thinly sliced cucumbes

Directions

Tuna Salad:

• Mix together: Safe Catch tuna, Greek yogurt, lemon juice, diced celery, diced red onion, diced green onion, dill, ground pepper

Tuna Melt:

• Brush the outsides of sourdough with minced garlic & juice it comes in.
• Place on panini press to grill 1 minute.
• Open sourdough slices and layer with spinach + tuna salad + Roma tomato + pepper + crumbled goat cheese + thinly sliced cucumber + second slice of bread.
• Grill another several minutes.
• Pair with tabbouleh and a juicy organic fig!

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do many experts recommend eating fish over taking Omega 3 supplements?
Tuna contains much more than just Omega 3s. Tuna has B vitamins, niacin, potassium, selenium, thiamin, and all nine essential amino acids.

Now, as it relates to just Omega 3s, there seems to be a debate among the experts as to whether pills are effective. If you google "fish vs. Omega 3 pills" you'll get both sides of the coin. Safe Catch is not experts but they can say this, you'll definitely get the benefits of seafood by eating seafood.

What are their cans made out of?
Safe Catch cans are made out of tin free stainless steel. The can lining is made out of a BPA-free material called organosol that ensures even coating of the liner.

Why does Safe Catch not pack its tuna in water or oil?
They don't add water or oil. In fact, they don't add any sort of filler to their tuna. They pack whole tuna steaks in each can or pouch by hand and add nothing except salt (where noted). They pack this way (fresh-pack) to retain all the naturally available nutrients and Omega 3 oils. Everything that comes in each can or pouch is great to eat.

Does Safe Catch test for radiation?
They do test for radiation. They do not test every fish but they send in samples of finished product to accredited 3rd party labels to test for the radiation. Their most recent analysis was conducted on October 24, 2016. Safe Catch will continue to have 3rd party, accredited labs run radiation tests on their finished product. Their Elite wild tuna and their Albacore products were tested for the presence of harmful radionuclides that include Cesium-134, Cesium-137, and Iodine-131, which are considered to be the radionuclides of greatest concern to the food supply following a nuclear power plant accident. Radiation is measured in becquerels (Bq), the standard unit of measurement as designated by the International System of Units. There was no detectable presence of any of the aforementioned radionuclides found in their Elite wild tuna or their Albacore products down to a detection level of 0.5 Bq/Kg.

What do they mean when you say "proprietary technology"?
Safe Catch developed a breakthrough technology capable of accurately and precisely testing each fish for its mercury concentration.

What do they do with the fish that don't make the grade?
They only buy fish that pass their purity, quality, and sustainability standards. If they don't make the grade, they don't buy them. They are still good fish, they're just not Safe Catch fish.

What is the Safe Catch mercury limit?
The Safe Catch Elite Wild Tuna is tested to a mercury limit of 0.100 ppm, which is 10X stricter than the FDA action limit. Their Safe Catch Wild Albacore Tuna is tested to a mercury limit of 0.300 ppm, which is 3 1/3X stricter than the FDA action limit.

Are their tuna wild or farm raised?
Safe Catch tuna is exclusively wild caught from managed tuna stock.

Does any of their tuna come from ships that use forced labor?
Safe Catch never purchases tuna caught from any unregulated fishing boats. Every single lot of tuna they purchase comes with a Fisheries Certificate of Origin, which is heavily regulated by the US Dept of Commerce, and a Captain's Statement that is signed by the captain of the boat that caught it. Some of those vessels are actually US vessels, but they only represent some of the many countries that do abide by the U.S. Department of Commerce Fisheries Certificate of Origin laws. They never purchase tuna from boats that are unregulated or from countries that don't abide by the U.S. Department of Commerce Fisheries Certificate of Origin program. Every lot of tuna they purchase is first inspected for the appropriate Fisheries and Sustainability documentation, inspected for quality, then tested by their own employees before they decide to purchase it. The Safe Catch canning facility is world class, and undergoes almost daily social and sanitary audits by its customers and very respected global agencies such as British Retail Consortium (BRC), Safe Quality Food (SQF), and the SGS Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI).

Where are their fish caught?
The majority of their albacore is caught in the Northern Pacific Ocean with a limited amount of albacore from the Southern Pacific Ocean. The majority of their skipjack is caught in the Western Pacific Ocean with a limited amount of skipjack being caught in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. They constantly investigate and monitor catch locations so that they can continue to sustainably provide the purest tuna available.

Is Safe Catch Tuna dolphin safe?
Yes! They are approved by the Earth Island International Monitoring Program as a Dolphin-Safe Distributor. They also make every effort on their own to ensure that all of their tuna is truly dolphin safe. Their Albacore tuna is Pole and Line caught, which means that each individual fish is caught with one pole and one hook. This method makes it virtually impossible for a dolphin to be hurt. Their Elite wild tuna, which is their purest tuna, is FAD Free, school caught, using purse seine nets. Every single lot of tuna that they catch comes with a signed statement from the captain that states that "no dolphins were killed or seriously injured in the sets in which the tuna were caught." Each and every lot of tuna Safe Catch purchases is first inspected for the appropriate Fisheries, Dolphin-safe, and Sustainability documentation, inspected for quality, then tested by their own employees before they decide to purchase it. This ensures that you are getting the purest tuna of any brand.

The Safe Catch Story
As childhood friends growing up next door to each other, founders Bryan and Sean never thought they would be working together and fighting for purity in our seafood and oceans.

It all began when Sean's mom read an article about mercury variance in tuna and said, "Moms shouldn't have to worry about giving tuna sandwiches to their kids. Sean, why don't you solve this?"

After some research, they learned that two identical tuna, same species, size and school could vary in mercury levels by over 10 times. The only way to know the mercury level was to test every fish.

Existing technology cost $100 per mercury test which would make a can of tuna cost about 50 bucks. So, they formed a team of talented software and hardware engineers and invented a new technology to rapidly test every fish for purity.

They went to major seafood brands and offered to test for them but they all declined. One executive told them that consumers wouldn't understand or care about better purity. So, Bryan and Sean did what any entrepreneur with zero experience in food would do. They started a new brand of tuna and named it Safe Catch.

They knew how to identify amazing tuna but they didn't how to make amazing tuna. They were surprised to learn that conventional tuna is precooked, rehydrated with fillers, machined processed and recooked and as result of so much processing it loses many vital Omega 3 oils, flavor and texture.

So, they searched for a better way to make and cook tuna. They found and adapted an old artisan method. At Safe Catch, they hand cut and hand pack each wild tuna steak into a BPA free lined can with no additives or fillers. Then, they slow cook it just once. It took them 75 different variations to get their formula perfect.

Bryan and Sean are so happy with the purity, quality, and taste. All of the vital Omega 3 oils and flavor are retained in Safe Catch tuna and there is no draining after opening. Open the can into a bowl, chop up the steak with a fork and let it reabsorb its natural oils. It's moist and delicious pure wild tuna as nature intended.

They hope you love it!