Hi memostotle, I was concerned with this myself and just shot consumeraffairs@tridentseafoods.com an email:

Hi Trident Seafoods,

I am a frequent purchaser of your wild Alaskan salmon patty product from Costco. I love the fact that this product uses wild Alaskan as opposed to the environmentally-damaging and unhealthy farmed Atlantic variety. However, I recently noticed that this product is par-fried in canola oil. One of the reasons why I choose to eat salmon is for its omega-3 content. Omega-3 fatty acids help to counterbalance the inflammatory effects of omega-6 fatty acids. But when you par-fry a salmon patty in canola oil, which is high in omega-6, it kind of defeats the purpose.

Perhaps a better alternative would be to par-fry it in coconut oil? In addition to its low omega-6 content, coconut oil is a very shelf-stable product, resistant to oxidation unlike canola and other seed oils. Plus, it is currently a darling health food and would be something you can boast about on the label. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Mountain

Canola and Veg Oil are very Bad. In addition, the heavy processing of those Burgers helps oxidation(bad).

I'd find a different solution

you're better off making your own. However, if this gets you to eat fish if you normally wouldn't, "doctor" it up to make it better.

I agree with just making your own. It really isn't much harder than making a regular burger. Who really knows how healthy/unhealthy processed vegetable oils are - but they are processed quite a bit, so I stay away as much as I can.

if you are regular eating it i would say its going to be trouble. Once in while it'd be fine. I do that with TJ's marinated rack of lamb. beautiful meat but ive noticed that in the marinade is the same as what you mentioned - canola oil. So i only eat it once a month, at the most. In the case of your mealsize burgers though, id err on the side of caution and ditch them. Homemade will taste better anyway!

Besides the canola oil, I wonder about the quality of the salmon itself. You really want to go for the wild-caught, otherwise I think it might not have as many omega-3s as you hope. It's telling that they have to add color to it. If it's missing color, why wouldn't it be missing the nutrients that salmon is naturally supposed to have as well.

You need to know whether it is farmed salmon, Atlantic salmon or wild salmon. Wild salmon is your best bet. A lot of questions have raised about the toxicity of Atlantic salmon and farmed salmon. Also, farmed salmon doesn't have as much A

All sockeye is wild; they cannot farm that species. Farmed salmon is much inferior to wild salmon, both in terms of omega-3 content and toxic load. Another interesting fact about sockeye is that it eats lower on the food chain, consuming mainly insects and algae, so it accumulates fewer environmental toxins than other species of salmon. “What about farmed versus wild? Well, the report that most refer to is the 2003 study done by the Environmental Working Group. EWG tested farm salmon and found that "seven of 10 farmed salmon purchased at grocery stores in Washington D.C., San Francisco and Portland, Ore., were contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at levels that raise health concerns." Additionally a study published in the journal Science in 2004 analyzed more than 2 metric tons of farmed and wild salmon from around the world and found that the concentrations of PCBs were "significantly higher in farmed salmon than in wild. European-raised salmon have significantly greater contaminant loads than those raised in North and South America." To be extra careful, trim the skin and fat, and grill or broil your salmon to reduce excess fat, which is where PCBs are stored.” (Charles Stuart Platkin, “Salmon Should Be A Dinner Staple,” The Daily Journal, June 21, 2010) Also, take a look at http://www.order-salmon.com/salmon-global-warming-salmon-climate-change.php

Many vegetable oils do more harm than good. You could just make your own salmon burgers. When I find an interesting food item I'd like to try, I look at the ingredients, replace bad ones with healthy choices and make my own recipe.

Here is a link on the canola oil http://www.westonaprice.org/know-your-fats/559-the-great-con-ola.html