Albert Heijn is coming out with a fair trade MSC tuna salad

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the food lovers of online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat and what to cook. This time our chefs serve you: to make today: Fair Trade MSC tuna salad from the supermarket.

The Amsterdam company Fish Tales, known from seafood chef and cookbook author Bart van Olphen, is the first in the Netherlands to offer a tuna salad in the supermarket that is not only really tasty, but also made from sustainably caught and processed tuna.

Tuna salad, love it. And I'm not alone, because canned tuna is one of the most popular fish products worldwide. The downside is that by far the majority of canned tuna comes from unsustainable sources. When I make tuna salad at home, for example for a ultimate tuna melt, I always buy the cans of tuna from Fish Tales. This tuna is line-caught and they only work with fisheries that operate in this sustainable and traditional way.

Two types of tuna salad
I find supermarket tuna salad – call me a snob – an absolute no go. Not only because the tuna in it is not line-caught, but also due to the excessive use of sweet mayonnaise. Fish Tales has now launched two tuna salads; a regular tuna salad and a spicy variant, both containing 50 percent sustainable, line-caught skipjack tuna.

The salads have tasty, chunky pieces of tuna and the mayo used does not leave a sweet aftertaste. The spicy variant, based on the recipe of the traditional Mas Uni tuna salad from the Maldives, is a salad with a real bite. Delicious on a warm pita bread or on a toast.

Now for sale
The two MSC-certified tuna salads (natural and spicy) have been available since February 21, 2022, at almost all Albert Heijn stores and cost €2.49 per salad.