Are Sushi Restaurants Healthy?
Although sushi is a few hundred years old in Japan, it’s still a pretty new and exotic food in the U.S., which leads to lots of widespread misconceptions surrounding it. I’ve come across all kinds of mistaken ideas. For example, some people think that all sushi is made with raw fish and that sushi in general is unsafe to eat. Of course, this is far from the truth. On the other end of the spectrum, I’ve met people who think that sushi is a sort of magical health food that is always low in calories and fat and high in nutritional content. While this is sort of true, sushi is not always the most healthy food in the world. The truth is somewhere in the middle. What Makes Sushi Healthy? The most obvious thing that makes sushi healthy is the fish. Of course, different types of fish vary in nutritional value, but most of them are rich sources of healthy proteins and beneficial omega-6 fatty acids. Meanwhile, vegetarian types of sushi, whether made with cucumber, avocado, mushroom, asparagus,
