Dardanel Tuna Fillet - How Many Calories?

Calories and protein in tuna fillet

Dardanel Tuna Fillet is a prepared tuna product with olive oil and salt. The producer lists 165 kcal and 29.2 g protein per 100 g. A weighed 50 g amount of the same composition provides about 83 kcal, 14.6 g protein and 2.25 g fat. Weighing a few pieces for a salad is more useful than counting them, since fillet pieces vary in size.

What changes when the oil is drained?

Adding the jar's oil to a salad is different from lifting out only the fish. There is no separate drained nutrition panel on the producer's page, so discarding the oil does not justify a fixed percentage reduction in calories. Some oil can remain with the fish. The calculator scales the published composition; it does not measure the result of a particular draining method at home.

The separate olive-oil canned tuna label shows why products using the same named oil need not contain equal protein or fat. Do not use the canned variety’s figures for jarred fillets.

Using the fillet in a meal

Place the prepared fillet on a salad or use it as a sandwich filling. Instructions for cooking raw tuna are not needed for a ready-to-eat jar. Bread, mayonnaise and any extra dressing contribute their own amounts. If oil from the jar goes into the salad, count an additional drizzle separately instead of recording all the dressing as one small spoonful.

The producer reports 380 mg of EPA plus DHA per 100 g, equivalent to 190 mg in a 50 g reference amount. That is a combined EPA and DHA figure, not a declaration of every omega-3 fatty acid or a daily serving recommendation. Salt is an ingredient, but its quantity is not reported in the published panel.

The explanation of omega-3 types distinguishes EPA and DHA in fish from ALA in walnuts and seeds. Check which fatty acids and portion the label describes.

An example combining 135 g tomato, carrot and radish salad with 50 g fillet calculated from the producer panel provides about 200 kcal and 15.91 g protein. Extra oil is excluded; the fillet’s unreported salt prevents a complete salt total.

After opening

Dardanel instructs consumers to keep the opened product covered with oil, close the jar and refrigerate at 4 °C for no more than two days. Follow the best-before information on an unopened jar and any instructions on the pack you have.

Source and whole-jar limitation

The producer's 165 kcal/100 g panel is the calculation basis. A 35 g protein statement on the 185 g jar image does not agree with multiplying that panel by the full net weight. A drained weight could not be verified, so an exact whole-jar calorie figure is not supplied. Unreported salt, sugar and micronutrients were not borrowed from other tuna products.

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