Smart Salmon with Hawaiian Huli-Huli® Sauce

For a taste of the Hawaiian Islands, try our Smart Salmon with Hawaii’s own Huli Huli® Sauce. 

Made from traditional Japanese shoyu (a soy sauce made from soy beans and wheat), ginger, and brown sugar,  Huli Huli® sauce is synonymous with Hawaiian barbeque chicken.  Huli means “turn” in the Hawaiian language and describes the method of rotisserie barbequing.   According to the legend, when it was time to turn the spit, someone would call out “huli, huli.” 

The makers of Huli Huli® sauce have specially reformulated it for us to make it all natural, removing the preservatives and using a lower sodium shoyu.  The Huli Huli® sauce with its deep ginger flavor is a perfect marinade for your salmon, enhancing the natural goodness of the fish and infusing it with a sweet and savory burst of flavor.

The main ingredient in Huli Huli®, soy sauce, has a bad reputation in some circles because of its sodium levels.  Those with high blood pressure should watch their sodium intake.  If you have hypertension and your doctor has placed you on a restricted sodium diet, you might want to consider our other Smart Salmon flavors.

However, some recent research suggests that there might be some health benefits to dark soy sauce.  Preliminary studies indicate that it might be many times higher in antioxidants than either red wine or vitamin C.

Antioxidants help to fight the negative effects of free radicals, which are associated with the aging process as well as a host of ailments such as cancer, heart disease, and some degenerative diseases.  More research is needed, but for most of us, there may not be any reason to shun soy sauce, and there may even be some health benefits.

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Smart Salmon with Australian Ginger Sauce

For ginger lovers this is the perfect entrée.  This Smart Salmon entrée begins with the goodness of sockeye salmon, high in Omega 3 fatty acids, Vitamin D and the super antioxidant, astaxanthin. It is then marinated in an all natural Australian ginger sauce. The ginger is picked at its peak of flavor and processed the same day for maximum freshness and concentration, Smart Salmon with Australian Ginger Sauce delivers the finest in both taste and health.   

Long known for its medicinal qualities in relieving cold and flu symptoms, nausea and heartburn, ginger supports the function of your body’s immune system.  Studies show that It works in the body as a natural anti-inflammatory and also has some anti-cancer properties.  Ginger is beneficial for all stages of life.  Studies have shown it to be effective at reducing nausea in pregnant moms and at reducing the pain levels of rheumatoid and osteoarthritis.  Ginger is off the charts in Vitamin C content.  Each serving delivers 500% of the recommended daily intake levels of Vitamin C.  Skip the orange juice and eat your Smart Salmon.

Health benefits of Ginger
Ginger contains very potent anti-inflammatory compounds called gingerols. These substances have been shown effective in providing pain relief and improved mobility for many rheumatoid and osteoarthritis sufferers.
Ginger has been found to be beneficial in reducing platelet aggregation which leads to coronary artery disease, without raising blood lipids or blood sugar.

Ginger treatments have been found to be useful in treatment of migraine, where it is proposed that pain relief from ginger may occur without any of the side effects that occur with standard treatments.
Some evidence suggests that Ginger may also inhibit the growth of human colorectal cancer cells.

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Smart Salmon with Kenyan Coffee BBQ Sauce

For a rich, bold flavor try our new Smart Salmon with Kenyan Coffee Barbeque Sauce.  This dark, rich sauce is all natural, made from tomatoes and a proprietary blend of spices and sweetened with raisin juice.  The sauce has flecks of real Kenyan coffee added for a perfect complement to the sweet and spice.

Our Smart Salmon with Kenyan Coffee BBQ Sauce, like all our Smart Salmon products, has a significant amount of EPA and DHA, the two main Omega 3 essential fatty acids in fish. These two fatty acids are among the most healthy nutrients that you can be eating. 

The American Heart Association recommends that you eat two fatty fish meals per week.  This Smart Salmon entrée is a delicious way to meet those nutritional goals.

The main ingredient in the barbeque sauce is tomato concentrate.  Tomatoes are a great source of lycopene.  Lycopene research has found that this antioxidant has numerous health benefits.  These include certain cancer-preventing properties for colorectal, prostate, breast, endometrial, lung, and pancreatic cancers.  

Antioxidants also play a role in preventing heart disease.  The amount of lycopene in our Smart Salmon product is small, and the FDA has not set a recommended daily value for lycopene, but antioxidants, like lycopene, and astaxanthin, the antioxidant found in sockeye salmon, help to neutralize “free radicals,” free oxygen molecules that can cause cell damage, aging, and disease, including cancer.

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