fish meal
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flour made from dried and ground fish or parts of fish
OverviewAI-generated
Fish meal is categorized as a meal with fish within the Openfoodfacts database. Nutritional data for this product indicates an energy content of 188 kcal per serving. The composition includes 11.4 grams of fat, of which 2.3 grams are saturated fat. It also contains 10.6 grams of carbohydrates, 10.6 grams of proteins, and 1.2 grams of fiber.
The product has 2.5 grams of sugars and 1.17 grams of salt. It is assigned a Nutri-Score of C and a NOVA group classification of 4. There are 487 products listed under this category in the database. Additionally, 4,871 records related to fish meal are indexed in PubMed.
Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 2 sources: PubMed, Openfoodfacts. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 487 products
- Energy
- 188 kcal
- Fat
- 11.4 g
- — of which saturates
- 2.3 g
- Carbohydrates
- 10.6 g
- — of which sugars
- 2.5 g
- Fibre
- 1.2 g
- Protein
- 10.6 g
- Salt
- 1.17 g
via Open Food Facts · ODbL
Research
4,871 papers- Cottonseed protein concentrate as fish meal substitution in fish diet: a review.Fish physiology and biochemistry · 2025
- Fish meal in animal feed and human exposure to persistent bioaccumulative and toxic substances.Journal of food protection · 2006
- Insect meal in aquafeeds: A sustainable path to enhanced mucosal immunity in fish.Fish & shellfish immunology · 2024
- The effect of fish meal replacement by soyabean products on fish growth: a meta-analysis.The British journal of nutrition · 2009
- Microplastics contamination in commercial fish meal and feed: a major concern in the cultured organisms.Chemosphere · 2024
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- fodder
- Subclass of
- meat and bone meal
- Image
- Fishmeal powder.jpg
- Has use
- animal feed
Show 2 more facts
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- Commons category
- Fish meal
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Encyclopedic overview
Powdered fish meal Fish meal (sometimes spelled fishmeal) is a commercial product made from whole wild-caught fish, bycatch, and fish by-products to feed farm animals, such as pigs, poultry, and farmed fish. Because it is calorically dense, and cheap to produce, fish meal has played a critical role in the growth of factory farms and the number of farm animals it is possible to breed and feed.
Fish meal takes the form of powder or cake. This form is obtained by drying the fish or fish trimmings, and then grinding it. If the fish used is a fatty fish, it is first pressed to extract most of the fish oil.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fish meal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.