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Albacore vs Skipjack Tuna: Mercury, Omega-3, Labels

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

Compare albacore and skipjack labels
Albacore vs skipjack: the ingredient labels tie at 100, but FDA testing puts canned albacore near three times the mercury of canned light tuna, and USDA FoodData Central gives it nearly four times the omega-3. Here is how to choose (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
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Chapters
0:00 Same Label, Different Fish
0:54 On Ingredients, a Tie
1:32 Mercury
2:21 Omega-3 and Protein
3:17 How to Choose
3:42 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.

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