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Cod
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Cod meat has virtually no fat (.3 percent) and is more than 18 percent protein, which is unusually high even for fish. And when cod is dried, the more than 80 percent of its flesh that is water having evaporated, it becomes concentrated protein - almost 80 percent protein.
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― Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
― Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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Newlyn does not look like the Cornish towns on either side: Penzance and Mousehole. Those are resort towns where British vacationers practice that peculiarly British pastime of strolling the beaches and walkways, bundled in sweaters and mufflers. But Newlyn is a fishing town - or, increasingly, an out-of-work fishing town.
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― Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
― Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
