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Is Canned Tuna Healthy? Labels, Mercury and Protein

Audio from the Clean Food Score video of the same name; the video shows the labels and scores on screen.

Compare every canned tuna label
Is canned tuna healthy? Twenty-two of the twenty-eight tuna labels we could score earned a perfect 100; the ones that lost points list a seed oil, and mercury is the question no label answers, so we use the FDA and EPA fish advice and USDA FoodData Central (as of October 2026).

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Products featured (Amazon links, with our 0–100 label score):
• Wild Planet Skipjack Wild Tuna — 100/100
• Safe Catch Elite Wild Tuna — 100/100
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Chapters
0:00 Twenty-Two Perfect Labels
0:45 What Is in the Can
1:33 The One Thing We Flag
2:27 What the Label Cannot Show
3:14 What Tuna Brings
3:57 How Much Tuna
4:45 Your Turn

Product scores are Clean Food Score's 0–100 label scores as shown on cleanfoodscore.com on 2026-10-16. Recipes change, so read the package you buy. We read labels; this is not medical advice.

Music
"Fresh Air" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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"Reminiscing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl), CC0.

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