Dardanel Crab Surimi - How Many Calories?

What is crab surimi made from?

Dardanel Crab Surimi is a fish-based product with crab flavouring. The sticks are not plain crab meat. The ingredient list includes a 52% surimi mixture, water, wheat and potato starches, egg, flavouring and salt. The surimi mixture itself contains fish meat, sugar and other ingredients. A 52% surimi declaration is therefore not a 52% pure-fish declaration; the 1% crab-flavouring figure does not establish a crab-meat percentage either.

Nutrition for a pack or half a pack

The 100 g pack provides 104 kcal, 7.4 g protein and 12.9 g carbohydrate. Half a pack, weighing 50 g, provides 52 kcal and 3.7 g protein. Declared sugars total 2.9 g per pack, with 0.3 g saturated fat. A fixed weight per stick has not been verified, so portions are calculated by weight.

There are 2 g of salt in the full pack and 1 g in half. Soy sauce adds salt of its own. When seasoning a surimi salad, consider the amount of surimi and sauce already included instead of counting only the salt sprinkled over the finished dish.

For example, adding 6 g of the hydrolyzed-protein soy sauce reference to 50 g surimi adds about 409 mg sodium. Together with the surimi’s 400 mg, the total is about 809 mg sodium, equivalent to 2.02 g salt. Fermented or reduced-sodium sauces need their own bottle’s panel.

Does it need cooking?

The pack identifies the product as ready to eat. Slice it into a cold salad, use it in a sandwich or add it to a sushi filling. Mayonnaise, rice and bread are not included in the surimi panel and need to be counted separately in the finished meal. Frying or heating the sticks in oil can add further fat.

For a salad protein comparison, the same 50 g of Dardanel tuna fillet provides about 14.6 g protein, versus 3.7 g for crab surimi. Their energy values are about 83 and 52 kcal respectively. Tuna-fillet salt is unreported, so it cannot be declared the lower-salt choice.

The shrimp, squid and mussel seafood salad is a different recipe example. Do not use its table for a surimi salad; count the sticks, dressing and other ingredients in their own amounts.

Allergens and chilled storage

Fish, wheat and egg are actual ingredients. The wheat means the product should not be treated as gluten-free. A crab-flavouring description does not establish suitability for someone with a shellfish allergy; check the allergen statement on the current pack. The producer specifies storage at 0–4 °C. Follow the pack's instructions for use after opening.

The allergen label-reading steps help check fish, starch, egg and flavouring information rather than relying on the crab name alone.

Nutrition source

Dardanel's Turkish and English pages agree on the 104 kcal/100 g panel. Older figures linked to a 150 g serving were not mixed into that formula. Sodium was calculated as 800 mg/100 g from 2 g of declared salt. Unreported fibre and micronutrients remain unknown.

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