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Haddock

Melanogrammus aeglefinusAlso called Melanogrammus aeglefinus, mezgit and Merlangius euxmus

Haddock is a fish with firm flesh when raw. Cooks preserve and smoke it, and it is sold canned, dried, fresh, or frozen.

  • Fish
  • Gluten-free
  • Allergen: fish

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Muscle
Family
Gadidae
Texture
Firm
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
France
Haddock, in dish

Photo: Daderot · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use haddock

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Preserve
  • Smoke

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture, raw

  • Firm

Shopping

Choosing and storing haddock

Choosing a good one

Choose fillets that are firm, translucent and hold together; opacity can indicate less freshness.

Sold as
Canned, Dried, Fresh, Frozen

Nutrition

What 100 g of haddock holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 97%Fat 3%Carbohydrate 0%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of haddock, raw
Energy74 kcal · 308 kJ
Protein16 g
Fat0.45 g
of which saturated0.09 g
Carbohydrate0 g
of which sugars0 g
Fibre0 g
Sodium213 mg
Cholesterol54 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of haddock, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium286 mg
Calcium11 mg
Iron0.17 mg
Magnesium21 mg
Zinc0.32 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)17 µg
Folate12 µg
Vitamin B121.8 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 171964, 333374), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: haddock in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: fishChecked and not found: soy, eggs, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
From: fishChecked and not found: egg, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

A kind of
fish

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What haddock is called

Names in 94 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Eglefino · Haddock · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • French

    Aiglefin · Âne · Melanogrammus aeglefinus · Eglefin

  • Italian

    Eglefino · Asinello · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Portuguese

    Eglefino · Hadoque · Arinca · lubina

  • German

    Schellfisch · Aiglefin · Melanogrammus aeglefinus · Aigrefin

  • Dutch

    schelvis · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Turkish

    Mezgit · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Russian

    Пикша · Melanogrammus aeglefinus · Пикши

  • Polish

    Plamiak · Łupacz · Wątłusz srebrzysty · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Arabic

    الحدوق

  • Persian

    روغن‌ماهی کوچک · روغن ماهی کوچک

  • Chinese

    黑線鱈 · 黑线鳕属

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  • Afrikaans

    Skelvis · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Albanian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Aragonese

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Armenian

    Պիշկա

  • Arpitan

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Asturian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus · Agrafín · agrafín

  • Austrian German

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Azerbaijani

    Pikşa

  • Basque

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Bavarian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Belarusian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    пікша

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Breton

    Azen · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Bulgarian

    пикша · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Burmese

    ဟက်ဒဂ်ငါး

  • Cantonese

    黑線鱈

  • Catalan

    eglefí · Melanogrammus aeglefinus · Baejo · Pollachius pollachius

  • Cebuano

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Corsican

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Croatian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Czech

    treska skvrnitá · haddock · pikša

  • Danish

    Kuller · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Egyptian Arabic

    الحدوق

  • Esperanto

    Eglefino · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Estonian

    kilttursk · Melanogrammus aeglefinus · pikša

  • Faroese

    Hýsa · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Filipino

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus · Aglepino · Anon · Anón

  • Finnish

    kolja · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Friulian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Galician

    Fogoeiro · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Georgian

    პიქშა · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Hungarian

    foltos tőkehal · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Icelandic

    Ýsa · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Ido

    Eglefino · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Indonesian

    Haddock · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Interlingua

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Interlingue

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Irish

    cadóg · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Japanese

    コダラ · モンツキダラ · ハドック

  • Kongo

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Korean

    해덕대구

  • Latin

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Latvian

    Pikša · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Ligurian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Limburgish

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Lithuanian

    Juodadėmė menkė · Pikša · Melanogrammus aeglefinus · églefin

  • Low German

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Low Saxon

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Luxembourgish

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Macedonian

    пишмол · Merlangius euxmus

  • Malagasy

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Malay

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Minangkabau

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Neapolitan

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Northern Frisian

    Skelfask

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    hyse · Kolje · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    hyse · Kolja · Kolje · Kuller

  • nrm

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • nys

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Occitan

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Picard

    Éqhélfin · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Piedmontese

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Romanian

    Eglefin · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Romansh

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Sardinian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Scots

    haddock · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Scottish Gaelic

    Adag · Melanogrammus aeglefinus · Adag (iasg)

  • Serbian

    Вахња · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    Вахња · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Sicilian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Simplified Chinese

    黑线鳕

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    黑线鳕

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    黑线鳕

  • Slovak

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Slovenian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Swahili

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Swedish

    kolja · Melanogrammus aeglefinus · églefin

  • Swiss German

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Swiss High German

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Traditional Chinese

    黑線鱈

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    黑線鱈

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    黑線鱈

  • Ukrainian

    Пікша · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Venetian

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Veps

    Pikš

  • Vietnamese

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Volapük

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Walloon

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Waray

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Welsh

    Hadog · Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • West Flemish

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Wolof

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

  • Zulu

    Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q202406

Photos

Photo: Daderot · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons