The Pescatarian Diet
Photos by Nevada Berg of North Wild Kitchen
Healthy for both people and the planet, the pescatarian philosophy is an incredible crossover between the famous Mediterranean diet and the newer Climatarian diet.
Plant-forward
Pescatarians eat primarily a lot of vegetables, legumes, fruit, grains, pasta, nuts and oats, together with fish, seafood, and eggs — check out what you can usually find in their pantries. Unlike the vegetarian diet, pescatarians are not completely restricted from meat and dairy—occasionally they can have some — but the key idea is to lower their consumption of these animal products while maintaining healthy well-being. This diet offers a lot of flexibility and a variety of flavors, ingredients, and recipes to keep your diet tasty, adventurous, and nutritious.
Fish and seafood
The pescatarian’s diet staple and primary source of protein is fish (and seafood). Fish, especially sustainably sourced salmon like ours, contains valuable nutrients like mighty Omega-3s, protein, B vitamins, selenium, potassium, astaxanthin, to name a few. Not surprisingly, the common reason for adopting this way of eating is to improve health.
Lower footprint
In addition to the abundance of health benefits, more people choose to eat a pescatarian diet due to environmental reasons. From an ecological standpoint, eating less meat lowers our carbon footprint. As livestock generates around 15% of the world’s greenhouse gases, the environmental impact of eating meat is quite high and Earth-friendly replacements are needed.
How to get started?
In addition to introducing more veggies, beans, and whole grains to your daily diet, try also to substitute meat with fish, seafood, and legumes as often as possible. Here are a few examples of healthy pescatarian swaps: Steaks can be replaced with tuna steaks, burgers with sweet potato and black beans burgers or our Kvaroy Acrtic’s delicious salmon burgers, hot dogs with Kvaroy Arctic’s salmon dogs, and chicken filets or chicken skewers with salmon.