What Are the Benefits of Eating Sardines?
Sardines–small, salt-water, soft-boned fish–derive their name from Sardinia, an island off the coast of Italy where they were once plentiful. Spain, Portugal, France and Norway are now the leading producers of these oil-rich fish. Sardines–loaded with minerals, vitamins, essential fatty acids and protein–are a very healthy dietary choice. The World’s Healthiest Foods notes that an additional bonus of eating sardines is that their diet of plankton causes them to lack the concentrated amounts of mercury and contaminants that other fish may have.
