Canning Tuna

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Skip the store-bought stuff, and learn to can your own fresh tuna for superior quality and flavor.
Skip the store-bought stuff, and learn to can your own fresh tuna for superior quality and flavor.
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Can tuna in a dial-gauge or weighted-gauge pressure canner using these processing times.
Can tuna in a dial-gauge or weighted-gauge pressure canner using these processing times.

Canning fresh seafood is a great way to keep delicious ingredients close at hand for future meals. In this helpful excerpt from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Complete Guide to Home Canning, you’ll learn the process for canning tuna safely. Use this and our other canning resources to keep your pantry stocked with fresh foods all year long.

The following is an excerpt from the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning covering canning tuna. 

Tuna

Tuna may be canned either precooked or raw. Precooking removes most of the strong-flavored oils. The strong flavor of dark tuna flesh affects the delicate flavor of white flesh. Many people prefer not to can dark flesh. It may be used as pet food.

Note: Glass-like crystals of struvite, or magnesium ammonium phosphate, sometime form in canned tuna. There is no way for the home canner to prevent these crystals from forming, but they usually dissolve when heated and are safe to eat.

  • Published on Jul 7, 2014
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