I understand that spoiled or old fish can make you very very sick, I just don’t understand why it’s so much worse than other perishable foods. Can someone explain this for me?
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How much spoiled food are you eating, dude? It’s all the same, depends on the bacteria that’s populating what you’ve eaten.
It isn’t, it’s just much easier for it to happen to fish and some other seafoods as they are sometimes prepared or eaten raw or less cooked than other meats.
Certain types of fish (typically red fleshed such as salmon and tuna) have a particular bacteria that triggers an allergy-like response in your body e.g. skin rashes and other symptoms
Other than that, it’s more a probability thing than any other reason – you are more likely to eat raw fish (e.g. sushi), which hasn’t gone through a significant cooking process than other foods e.g. chicken or red meat, so are more likely to get sick from improperly stored fish than meat
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