What Do You Think About Canned Smoked Oysters?

[limitme]

Usually they are in cottonseed oil...or something similar....

regardless....would you consider this semi-healthy?

[EarlyBird]

Healthy or not, i love 'em and eat them frequently.

[athletic dept]

Smoked meats contain nitrosamines and nitrosamides. Both are carcinogenic in lab animals.
If you do eat smoked meat you should wash it down with vitamin C and E to help neutralize the nitrites.

[Arrowwind09]

I am very leary of cottonseed oil as they use a lot of pesticides on cotton which can typically be found in the seed. I wont eat it. Otherwise,unadulterated oysters, they say are very good for you. I can't get past the gross slime factor.

[EarlyBird]

You're right - my Chicken of the Sea oysters are in cottonseed oil.
Drat! Drat! Drat! El Crappo!

[saved1986]

Originally Posted by Arrowwind09

I am very leary of cottonseed oil as they use a lot of pesticides on cotton which can typically be found in the seed. I wont eat it. Otherwise,unadulterated oysters, they say are very good for you. I can't get past the gross slime factor.

I am leary of it also:

1) God did not design cotton seeds for our consumption.
2) They have a mild toxin which causes temporary sterility in males.