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  • ... salmon does not need complicated marinades to taste good. Salt, pepper and a few drops of lemon juice are enough to enhance its flavour.
  • ... fish gives you copious amounts of protein, that metabolise slowly to give you energy for everything that you will do after dinner.
  • ... frozen fillets thaw more quickly if you put them in cold water. After only a short while you can cut your fish into pieces or slice it.
  • ... A fjord is a deep, narrow and elongated inlet of the sea, with steep land on three sides formed by glaciers.
  • ... you should not boil fish, but poach it: This means cooking it without it coming to the boil. The water should just simmer. It will then have a temperature just below boiling point, around 95 degrees.
  • ... The Norwegian Directorate of Health recommends that you eat fish for dinner three times per week, and in your sandwiches. Just like ski star Marit Bjørgen!
  • ... seafood contains most of the minerals and trace elements that we need, and is virtually without carbohydrates.
  • ... 37 million meals of Norwegian seafood are eaten around the world every day.
  • ... corn starch is ideal for saving a fish sauce that is too thin. Just shake some corn starch and water together in an empty jam jar and pour a thin stream into the sauce while stirring. Then boil and the sauce is ready.
  • ... When stretched out, Norway’s coastline is longer than the Equator at over 51,500 miles long.
  • ... Salmon aquaculture began in Norway in the early 1970s. Today, ocean-raised seafood is the nation’s number two export.
  • ... To ensure ocean-farmed salmon have enough space to mature naturally, each facility is made up of 97.5% water by volume.
  • ... Salmon is a great source of heart-healthy Omega-3 fatty acids, a vital nutrient our bodies don’t produce.
  • ... A salmon’s pink color comes from nutrients in the crustaceans it eats. Ocean-raised salmon get the same natural vitamins from supplements.
  • ... Norway exports over 27 million portions of seafood a day, 11 million of which are salmon.
  • ... To ensure quality control, Norway created a surveillance system to follow every step of the food chain.
  • ... Every day, Norwegian salmon provides 11 million meals around the world.
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