But do they taste as good.....

The never ending question about anything new in the food industry.  Will it taste as good as the other guys product.  Well, when you ask someone who is in that industry, the guy putting the new item out on the shelve of course they will say yes.

So I wanted to post the results of a study done in Florida comparing Ocean Shrimp to Freshwater Prawn to Saltwater farm raised shrimp.  Ok, before you go there, it was an independent study, it wasn't sponsored by a bunch of guys who owned freshwater prawn farms.  There were 100 people who were tested.


http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/27631/1/33010151.pdf 

Now i realize that there will be people on the gulf coast or people on the west coast that are already thinking that since those were Atlantic shrimp "no wonder the freshwater prawn won all categories".  Well, that may not be it at all.

My own personal belief is that the freshwater prawn are being raised in cleaner water, are actually being fed a steady diet of a healthier food and honestly are being harvested in a much less stressing way.  All of those things are known to effect the taste of any game animal or fish.

Once we get up an going we do want to have our own taste test.  We will get shrimp from one of the coast, not frozen but shipped overnight, brackish water shrimp and our own freshwater prawn.  We'll put ours in cold shock over night as if they would have had to be shipped as well to keep things fair.  One chef prepares them all in the same way.

So hopefully if not this summer, next summer we'll have the great shrimp taste test here in Fort Collins.

In the meantime, keep your mind and taste buds open.

Scott