Earlier this month, New York resident Stacy Peskin was preparing her weekly salad of greens topped with tuna when she noticed something poking out from the pinkish meat: clear, sharp pieces of what looked like glass. But it wasn’t just a single shard. Poking around with a fork, Peskin found them embedded throughout the Bumble Bee can’s contents.
When Peskin emailed Bumble Bee with her problem, the seafood company had another explanation. They weren’t pieces of glass, but rather crystals chemically known as magnesium ammonium phosphate hexahydrate, often called struvite.
“These crystals are formed by the union of natural, normal constituents found in all seafoods after they are sterilized in the can,” Bumble Bee told Peskin in the email, which she provided to Yahoo Food. “These constituents are mineral elements, richly supplied by the sea water in which the fish or shellfish live. These crystals can easily be mistaken for glass or plastic, although they more closely resemble crystals of salt.”
Earlier this month, New York resident Stacy Peskin was preparing her weekly salad of greens topped with tuna when she noticed something poking out from the pinkish meat: clear, sharp pieces of what looked like glass. But it wasn’t just a single shard. Poking around with a fork, Peskin found them embedded throughout the Bumble Bee can’s contents.When Peskin emailed Bumble Bee with her problem, the seafood company had another explanation. They weren’t pieces of glass, but rather crystals chemically known as magnesium ammonium phosphate hexahydrate, often called struvite.“These crystals are formed by the union of natural, normal constituents found in all seafoods after they are sterilized in the can,” Bumble Bee told Peskin in the email, which she provided to Yahoo Food. “These constituents are mineral elements, richly supplied by the sea water in which the fish or shellfish live. These crystals can easily be mistaken for glass or plastic, although they more closely resemble crystals of salt.”
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