Eli5: Why do fish have different “meat” in comparison to land animals?
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Land animals have different meat as well. But aquatic animals are built differently to survive in the water their entire lives, especially in Salt water areas. They don’t have normal hair and aren’t exposed to direct sunlight and have to breed and breathe differently than land animals. It’s just a product of their environment.
All animals have different types of meat, whether seafood or not – the meat of a halibut versus a salmon versus a swordfish versus a lobster are very different from each other. As are the meats of land animals, like cows, pigs, chickens, and crickets – all very different types of meat.
The thing that seafood has in common is that it lives in water (sometimes salt water) and in colder conditions than most land animals – this makes it sometimes go bad more quickly at room temp and means that proper storage is essential for seafood.
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If you’re talking about the textural differences it’s because the muscle fibers of fish are laid out differently (short fibers overlapping, which makes the meat flaky) which is more efficient in the side to side motions required for swimming.
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Now I wanna know why swordfish and mahi mahi have more “terrestrial” flesh than other fish. Deep sea swimming?
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Have you tasted this much land animals? They sure do not taste the same, we re only consuming the same type of mammals. I don’t think human or dog tastes the same as sheep and cow. So fish doesn’t taste the same as they don’t eat the same stuff
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