THE HEALTHIEST OCEAN

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The Healthiest Ocean in the World

The crystal clear, pure and ice cold oceans around Greenland provides seafood of impeccable quality for dinner tables around the world – prawns, Greenland halibut, cod, snow crab and other delicacies. The freezing water temperature makes fish and shellfish grow very slowly allowing time for taste and texture to develop. 
Text: greenland today. Photo: Royal Greenland. November 2010
Maybe seafood from the Arctic Ocean is also extra healthy? The diet of Greenlanders have traditionally contained a lot of seafood, including sea mammals such as whale and seal in addition to various seabirds, which all contain a number of vitamins, minerals and polyunsaturates.
In the 1970s, studies of the diet in Greenlandic settlements lead Danish scientists on track to the beneficial effects of Omega-3 fatty acids on the human body. They discovered that cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary thrombosis, were not as common in Greenland as they were among the Danish population. The cause was to be found in their diet, which when it comes to the Danes, only contained very little seafood – precisely 154 g per week, while official recommendations for seafood intake are 2-300 g per week.
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Royal Greenland, Greenland’s largest fishing enterprise, has investigated the reasons why the Danes eat so little seafood. The results showed that Danes are aware that seafood is good for you and they want to eat more, but they think it is a hassle to prepare seafood and do not really know, how to go about doing it. In order to help the Danes incorporate seafood in their daily diet, Royal Greenland launched www.royalgreenland.dk in June 2010.
The website contains many recipes with seafood from Greenland and other parts of the world. Some of the recipes have been made into small film clips, in which a chef guides the user through the recipe step by step. The recipes are spiced up with information on fish and shellfish species, catching methods and the like. In addition, everyday life in Greenland is displayed through film, text and images in two blogs, written by Royal Greenland’s own employees in Greenland. This way the site tells the full story about the tasty (and healthy) Greenlandic seafood.
Hopefully, this site will help the Danes become as good as the Greenlanders at putting seafood on the menu. In the meantime, we are waiting anxiously for the rest of the world to be able to enjoy these recipes via a translated version on their English website.