Chef Andrew Zimmern’s seafood health revolution for Americans revealed

Movie star chef Andrew Zimmern claims America’s subsequent well being revolution is occurring within the seafood part of the grocery store.

In an interview with Fox Information Digital, the “Weird Meals” host and James Beard Award-winning chef mentioned some of the harmful habits of People at present is neglecting fish.

“Seafood is usually the healthiest protein… from digestion to mind well being to mind progress for youthful individuals and so forth,” Zimmern mentioned.

The Minnesota-based chef mentioned seafood is “extraordinarily helpful” for the physique.

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“It is typically very low in fats, and the fat which can be there are very, very wholesome.”

In Zimmern’s new “Blue Meals Cookbook,” co-written with fellow chef Barton Seaver, he says a easy change in American consuming habits may have destructive penalties for public well being, the setting and the financial system.

Chef Andrew Zimmern informed Fox Information Digital that People do not eat sufficient seafood. (iStock)

“I’d adore it if individuals ate one other meal from the water each week,” he mentioned. “Just one.”

Zimmern has spent many years researching what individuals eat and why.

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He is eaten every thing from tarantulas in Cambodia to fermented sharks in Iceland, however his message now’s easy: seafood is the longer term.

“We export 75% of what U.S. fisheries herald,” he mentioned. ‘That quantity is the wrong way up. We should always maintain extra of that seafood right here at dwelling.”

Andrew Zimmern, left, and Barton Seaver, proper, are co-authors of the brand new “Blue Meals Cookbook.” (Eric Wolfinger)

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By creating extra demand for seafood, the worth would drop, extra individuals would eat it and “individuals could be more healthy,” Zimmern mentioned.

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A part of the issue, he mentioned, is the phantasm of low-cost meat.

‘I am consuming much less and fewer [red meat] as annually passes, however I adore it.”

“Now we have, in a way, been nearly hypnotized on this nation into assuming {that a} steak of a sure measurement, individually portioned and wrapped in plastic on the grocery retailer, ought to price eight to 9 {dollars},” Zimmern mentioned. “And that was the case for forty, fifty years. That is not the case.”

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In accordance with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the typical retail value for 100% floor beef elevated from $4.63 in 2020 to $6.12 in 2025.

“The common household in America cannot afford that,” Zimmern mentioned.

The price of steaks is not reasonably priced for a contemporary American household, Zimmern mentioned. (iStock)

That mentioned, Zimmern believes purple meat and seafood can coexist.

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“I like purple meat,” he mentioned. “I eat much less and fewer of it yearly, however I adore it.”

Zimmern, pictured with Seaver, left, mentioned he believes individuals could be more healthy in the event that they ate extra seafood. (Eric Wolfinger)

Zimmern additionally shot down one in all America’s most persistent seafood snobberies: the so-called “rubbish fish.”

“It is a massive fable,” he mentioned. “In the end, the necessary query is not, ‘Is it wild?’ “Is it farmed?” … The query needs to be, ‘The place is it captured, and is it sustainable and regenerative?’”

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He calls tilapia – a gentle, low-cost and farmed fish that’s usually thrown away by company – one in all his favourite meals.

Zimmern mentioned he serves tilapia at his dwelling as soon as per week. (iStock)

“We eat it as soon as per week at our home as a result of it absorbs the flavors rather well,” Zimmern mentioned.

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“Once I make tilapia with lemon and capers – and that is the best way I normally serve it to my household – not solely does it take me about twelve minutes to make it, I serve it to firm… they usually say, ‘Oh my God, what is that this fish?’ And I am like, ‘It is tilapia.'”