The process of making dried fish will not remove the calcium content in fish. Therefore, salted fish can be one of the good sources of calcium for bones. Calcium levels found in fresh fish is relatively nothing was missing, when the fish is marinated.
"Even with the same weight, salted fish have higher levels of calcium than fresh fish. This is because the anchovies have less water content," said Chairman of the Sub Macro Community Nutrition Ministry of Health Mohammad Nasir in a talk show titled Balanced Nutrition for Health and Intelligence Children in Jakarta, Wednesday (06/02/2013).
Several studies have shown that eating salted fish was one factor causing cancer or nasopharyngeal carcinoma. One of the substances contained in dried fish called nitrosamines is the trigger factor.
"Nitrosamines is a carcinogenic substance, which can cause cancer," said Professor of Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia Prof. Dr. Bambang Hermani, Sp. ENT-KL (K), Wednesday (01/06/2011) in Jakarta.
Nitrosamine substance will emerge in the process of salting and drying of salted fish in the hot sun. Sunlight reacts with nitrite (the reshuffle of protein) in the fish meat to form nitrosamines compounds.
