Is smoked fish good for children?

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Last night we had smoked haddock, I really like it, children were indifferent so no sure what the thought. Is it a good idea to give them smoked fish? Im just trying to give them a different variety of tastes, they have gone of salmon of late and not bothered about plain cod either. Any other ideas with oily fish?

Not sure if it's good or bad particularly for children, but I would think once in a while is OK.
Have you tried using tinned fish (tuna, salmon etc) with pasta or in a sandwich. Smoked salmon with scrambled eggs or pasta. Other fish to try would be trout (cooked under the grill) Although that's probably not the oily variety. Is cod oily?
Fish pie with a mixture of cod and smoked haddock or just cod.

As a general rule though, everything that has been previously smoked (that includes certain varieties of hard cheese from other countries) is potentially cancerigenic (absolutely no idea how to spell that but it may cause cancer). That also reffers to barbecued food which is probably the worst of all.

As with everything, moderation is the best
approach.

HTH

No idea if there is any health reason for them not to have it.

DD (2.5yo) adores smoked salmon and eats it with me, whenever I buy it in. Not often TBH but maybe monthly. Shje also liked smoked mackerel when I had that in last. I love smoked fish, but have the occasional reaction to some smoked fish, or we would all eat it more often.

Hula,
DS loves Smoked Salmon too (but then he eats just about everything).

We occasionally have smoked salmon and scrambled egg for sunday breakfast. The first time ds went to his childminders she offered him scrambled eggs on toast for lunch.

His reply?

"No thanks, I'll just have the smoked salmon"

They will eat tuna sandwiches and salmon & pasta used to be a be fav, but recently they have gone right off of it. I know we should be having oily fish more in our diets, my dd will eat sardines on toast though.

Have you tried mackerel (the non-smoked variety)? It's very tasty, cheap and a great oily fish. It's good just grilled, or flaked and stirred in to tomato sauce for pasta.

Smoked is fine in moderation as the others have said. Unsmoked is generally healthier.

My understanding is that tinned fish is less good than fresh for the oily varieties - some of the valuable oils get altered/ destroyed by the canning process I think. Although that may not be true for all fish.

LOL at Easy's son and the smoked salmon

It's only tuna that loses the oils. Tinned salmon is better than the farmed fresh stuff.

Wish DP liked mackerel

Thanks MI - I knew I'd heard that about at least some canned fish. I'm off to get some tinned salmon then!

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have stopped buying smoked bacon for this very reason. Does anyone know if proper smoked foods are ok? Is it just the dipped stuff that should be avoided? I love smoked foods, and my ds particularly loves smoked mackerel, trout and salmon.

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Just been having a kipper (fish not annoying little dog or small Oxford Reading Tree person) conversation with a fellow Mner.
We give our children a smoked haddock and leek risotto occasionally and also flaked kipper with scrambled egg.
Branster is right I think - everything in moderation.

I love Kipper the Dog.

AND all smoked foods, I'm afraid.

The process of smoking fish includes a lot of salting (actually you extract the water of the fish by covering it in salt for several hours (and I mean almost submerging the fish in salt rather than sprinki=ling it with it). You can test how tru this is, eat a packet of smoked fist at night and you would fins yourself wakin several times at night to drink water.