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Tuna

Thunnini, ThunnusAlso called Thunnini, tunny fish, tunny-fish and thunnus

Tuna is a fish with firm flesh. Cooks grill it or serve it raw, and it is sold fresh, frozen, canned, or in flakes.

  • Fish
  • Gluten-free
  • Allergen: fish

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

Part used
Muscle
Family
Scombridae
Texture
Firm
Cooked most in
Asia, Europe, Africa
Top country
Indonesia
Tuna, cut

Photo: George Alexander Ishida Newman from Japan · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use tuna

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Grill
  • Raw

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Firm

Shopping

Choosing and storing tuna

Sold as
Canned, Flakes, Fresh, Frozen

Around the world

Where tuna is cooked

10 dishes in the catalogue use tuna. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list tuna among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. 1903 · Australia

    Australian production of canned tuna began in 1903.

  2. The 1990s · United Kingdom

    Supermarkets began importing fresh tuna steaks by air in the late 1990s.

On the table

Dishes made with tuna

8 of the 10 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Pan-bagnat

    France

  • Keumamah

    Indonesia

  • Mimosa salad

  • Maskurolhi

    Maldives

  • Tunnina

    Italy

  • Niçard salad

    France

  • Gohu ikan

    Indonesia

  • Tuna tartare

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include tuna.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: tuna 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
Kinds
albacore, longtail tuna, mackerel tuna, skipjack tuna, yellowfin tuna

Cooked together

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

What tuna is called

Names in 76 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Thunnini

  • French

    thunnini

  • Italian

    Thunnini

  • Portuguese

    Thunnini

  • German

    Thunnini

  • Dutch

    Thunnini

  • Greek

    Τόνος

  • Turkish

    Thunnini

  • Russian

    тунцы · Thunnini

  • Polish

    Tuńczyki

  • Arabic

    تونة

  • Persian

    ماهی تن

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  • Achinese

    Surè

  • Afrikaans

    Tuna

  • Albanian

    Thunnini

  • Aragonese

    Thunnini

  • Asturian

    Thunnini

  • Azerbaijani

    Tuna

  • Balinese

    Tuna

  • Bangla

    টুনা

  • Basque

    Thunnini

  • Belarusian

    тунцы

  • Betawi

    Tuna

  • Bikol

    Turingan

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Thunnini

  • Bulgarian

    Риби тон

  • Burmese

    တူနာငါး

  • Cantonese

    吞拿魚

  • Catalan

    Thunnini

  • Cebuano

    Thunnini

  • Central Kurdish

    تونە

  • Cherokee

    ᏚᎾ

  • Chinese

    金枪鱼族 · 金枪鱼 · 鲔鱼 · 鲔族

  • Cornish

    Toun

  • Croatian

    Tuna

  • Czech

    tuňák

  • Danish

    thunnin · tunfisk

  • Esperanto

    Tinusinioj

  • Extremaduran

    Thunnini

  • Fijian

    Thunnini · tuna

  • Filipino

    Tulingan

  • Finnish

    tonnikalat

  • Galician

    Thunnini

  • Hebrew

    טונה

  • Hindi

    टूना

  • Ido

    Thunnini

  • Indonesian

    Tuna

  • Interlingua

    Thunnini

  • Interlingue

    Thunnini

  • Irish

    Thunnini

  • Japanese

    ツナ · マグロ族

  • Kannada

    ಟ್ಯೂನ ಮೀನು

  • Korean

    다랑어 · 참치

  • Latin

    Thunnini

  • Latvian

    tunzivju cilts · tunzivis · tunči · Thunnini

  • Lithuanian

    tunai

  • Malagasy

    Tonina

  • Malay

    Aya · tuna · tongkol · abu-abu

  • Malayalam

    ചൂര

  • Minangkabau

    Tuna

  • Occitan

    Thunnini

  • Punjabi

    ਤਨ (ਮੱਛੀ)

  • Romanian

    Thunnini

  • Scots

    tuna

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Tuna

  • Simplified Chinese

    金枪鱼族 · 金枪鱼 · 鲔族 · 鲔鱼

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    金枪鱼族 · 金枪鱼 · 鲔族 · 鲔鱼

  • Sinhala

    ටූනා

  • Slovak

    tuniak

  • Sundanese

    Tuna

  • Swedish

    tonfisk

  • Tamil

    சூரை

  • Thai

    ปลาทูน่า

  • Traditional Chinese

    鮪族 · 鮪魚 · 金槍魚族 · 金槍魚

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    鮪族 · 鮪魚 · 金槍魚族 · 金槍魚

  • Ukrainian

    Thunnini

  • Urdu

    ٹونا مچھلی

  • Vietnamese

    Cá ngừ đại dương

  • Volapük

    Thunnini

  • Waray

    Thunnini

  • Western Panjabi

    ٹونا

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q6146274

Photos

Photo: George Alexander Ishida Newman from Japan · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons