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What is your favorite type of fish? Of the many kinds of fish sold on the market, milkfish is one of the most sought after fish thanks to its delicious taste and is easy to process into various delicious dishes. Unfortunately, not many people know about the benefits of milkfish. If you are one of them, make sure you refer to the following reviews, yes!
Nutritional content in milkfish
Apart from meat and chicken, fish also contains some unquestionable amounts of protein. One of them is raw milkfish which contains 20 grams of protein. Not only that, 100 grams of milkfish also contain 4.8 grams of fat and 123 calories of energy.
Interestingly, a myriad of other nutrients also complement the milkfish content, such as:
- Calcium: 20 milligrams (mg)
- Phosphorus: 150 mg
- Iron: 2 mg
- Sodium: 67 mg
- Potassium: 271.1 mg
- Vitamin A: 45 micrograms (mcg)
- Vitamin B1: 0.05 mg
- Vitamin B2: 0.2 mg
For you fans of presto milkfish, please be proud because the processed fish is no less nutritious. By eating 100 grams of presto milkfish, you will get:
- Energy: 296 calories
- Protein: 17.1 grams
- Fat: 20.3 grams
- Carbs: 11.3 grams
- Calcium: 1,422 mg
- Phosphorus: 659 mg
- Iron: 1.9 mg
Just like the nutrition in raw milkfish, eating presto milkfish also contributes a number of vitamin A, vitamin B1, and even vitamin C.
What are the benefits of milkfish?
Seeing the many nutritional content in it, of course, the most important benefits of milkfish that you can get are a number of these nutrients. But not only that, most milkfish are usually processed by presto, which allows the audience to eat all parts of the fish's body.
No exception, the bones also become soft so that they can be eaten with fish meat. Quoting from the CNN Indonesia page, Professor Ahmad Sulaeman, a nutritionist from the Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB), said that milkfish has extraordinary nutrition including its protein content.
According to him, this is due to the process of cooking milkfish through presto, which allows all parts of the fish's body to be eaten except for the stomach and gills that have been previously removed.
As you probably already know, the bones in milkfish are rich in calcium, which is good for supporting bone and tooth function. That is why, when participating, it will contribute some calcium to the body. Other benefits of milkfish are seen from their nutritional content, such as vitamins A, B, and C, which are important for maintaining vision and immune function.
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