How many calories in a tin of sardines
A tin of sardines, drained, has about 210 kcal and 25 g of protein.
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To burn it off
Sardines are small oily fish, and a tin of them is one of the cheapest ways to get a proper amount of protein. You get 25 g of protein and 12 g of fat.
The fat is the oily fish kind people are told to eat more of. There are no carbs at all, so the toast underneath is what adds those.
On holiday in Lisbon or the Algarve they come grilled whole off the barbecue in June. At home, it's sardines on toast with a squeeze of lemon.
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Where it comes from
The word goes back to the Latin sardina and is often linked to the island of Sardinia, though nobody is sure. The tin is French: from the 1820s Joseph Colin, in the Atlantic port of Nantes, built up a market for sardines sealed in tins, and canneries soon spread along the coast of Brittany and on to Portugal and Morocco.
Where does our food come from? · Source: Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring, Canning
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Questions
Are sardines high in protein?
Yes. A tin has about 25 g.
How many calories in sardines on toast?
The sardines are about 210 kcal, and a slice of toast with butter adds about 130, so roughly 340.
Do sardines in oil have more calories?
A bit more if you eat the oil. Drain it and the difference shrinks.
Are sardines high in mercury?
No, they're one of the lowest. Sardines are small fish that eat plankton, so they don't build up much mercury, unlike big fish like swordfish or large tuna.
How many calories in one sardine?
A tinned sardine is about 25 g drained, so around 50 kcal. A tin usually holds about four.
