No more excuses: nutrition goes hand in hand with taste and convenience

Nutritional scientist Dr. Bruce Holub ranks heart, brain and vision health, and reduced risk of cancer and strokes among the top benefits of eating canned seafood

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TORONTO, Nov. 22 /CNW/ - Clover Leaf Seafoods is launching an awareness campaign this week to remind Canadians that health and nutrition are only minutes away with its popular "Take 5" recipes, which reinvent fast food using just five ingredients to create nutritious, tasty meals that are ready and on the table in five minutes.

Clover Leaf has enlisted the help of health and nutritional scientist Dr. Bruce Holub, Ph.D., founder of the DHA/EPA Omega-3 Institute, to narrow the nutritional benefits of canned seafood to a shortlist of five, dubbed the Clover Leaf Take 5 Top 5: 1.) heart health, 2.) brain health, 3.) vision health, 4.) reduced risk of cancer and 5.) reduced risk of stroke.

"Canada's Food Guide recommends that Canadians eat at least two servings of fish each week," said Dr. Holub. "Unfortunately the average adult consumes only one serving every seven days, meaning as many as half or more of Canadian adults eat under one serving each week. Our kids also consume an average of less than one portion of fish each week."

Benefits of a seafood rich diet include reducing the risk of heart disease, lowering blood triglycerides, improving heart function and reducing damage from heart disease, supporting cognitive and brain development, lowering blood pressure, and improving symptoms of inflammatory diseases and arthritis. Recent studies also suggest greater fish intakes in the aging population appear to benefit the retention of hearing capacity and reduce age-related macular deterioration. Seafood is also a rich source of protein, vitamins, and minerals including vitamin D, calcium and selenium. Many varieties of seafood are also low in sodium and cholesterol.

The Clover Leaf product line offers a wide variety of low sodium and flavoured tuna, as well as skinless, boneless salmon products which boast a nutrition profile that is high protein, low in fat and a good source of essential vitamins and minerals including Vitamin D and calcium. Research also shows both tuna and salmon have some of the highest concentrations of omega-3 healthy fatty acids which provide a wealth of nutritional benefits. While fresh or frozen fish deliver the same health benefits, canned fish and seafood offer the added benefit of convenience.

"Clover Leaf's Take 5 recipes make healthy dinners so quick and easy, there are no more excuses when it comes to reaping the wealth of health benefits from eating fish and seafood," said Holub. "The recipes are an easy, delicious way to bring these health benefits to the dinner table, and to get young children to start enjoying fish like never before."

Click here for Dr. Holub's Take 5 Top 5, including relevant research and scientific references: http://www.cloverleaf.ca/en/company/news-press-releases/take5top5.html

Clover Leaf's dozens of five-minute, tasty and nutritious Take 5 recipes and complete nutritional information can be found at www.cloverleaf.ca/en/recipes/tag/take5/.

About Clover Leaf Seafoods
Clover Leaf Seafoods is Canada's largest branded shelf stable seafood company. For more than 100 years Clover Leaf has been dedicated to providing consumers with high quality canned and ready-to-serve seafood products. In addition to household seafood staples, such as canned tuna and salmon, Clover Leaf offers a wide variety of flavoured tuna, award-winning prepared tuna steaks, smoked oysters and mussels, as well as specialty seafoods including canned crab, shrimp, herring, sardines and clams. Clover Leaf is Canada's leading brand of canned tuna and canned salmon. Clover Leaf Seafoods is a subsidiary of Connor Bros. L.P.

For more information, please visit www.cloverleaf.ca.

For further information:

Laura Creedon

Pilot PMR for Clover Leaf Seafoods
T: 416-462-0199, ext. 31
[email protected]