Season Mackerel in Olive Oil - Skinless & Boneless, Wild Caught, Keto Snacks,...

I eat a lot of tinned fish - sardines, tuna, mackerel and others, sometimes trout or salmon, sometimes octopus and cod liver. I really like the taste of fish in oil, but sometimes I just want some light clean protein. This is perfect for that, a solid alternative to high-quality sardines in water I have had this for all meals - breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as snacks, always right out of the tin and with no additional condiments, and have been consistently happy with it. I think many will find this a bit bland, or maybe slightly dry. It is quite dense and meaty, so that's a natural impression, you have to be looking to have that sort of fish. It doesn't have that mild bitterness or acridity that characterizes some fish packed in water. It's particularly good when you don't want anything too heavy, so for breakfast or supper. I haven't tried cooking it, or in a sandwich or anything, so I can't comment on that. But I recommend it as a standard part of your tinned fish rotation, being very mild you can have it regularly without tiring of it.

Fantastic taste and quality. Pricey, yes, but worth it.

Fantastic quality, smells great, good value, handy in size to bring for lunch, good texture that is solid and delicious.

I’m not a fan of sardines as a value, but these mackerels filets taste more like tuna and I get all the benefits of a can of sardines. Great product

Minus 1 star for being a bit overpriced, but otherwise a top quality 5 star product. Very mild fish taste with a hint of grilled flavor, and you can tell the fish was cooked and packed very fresh. I love using the olive oil in it to cook my rice or pasta in with to infuse deep flavor into the rice or pasta as it cooks and rehydrates. No since wasting the heart healthy olive oil! To costly to waste any of it. Then I add in the rest of the fish along with fresh steamed veggies, mushrooms, spicy Asian chili crisp "the same used in dan dan noddles", a dash of soy sauce after the rice is cooked. So very good for a rich hearty healthy dinner. Love it!

Great taste !

So good, I add my own omega 3 oil and a squeeze of fresh lemon and what a lovley lunch

Serious Quality Control and Customer Service Problems! I had been eating these mackerels from Season-- specifically, "In Water, No Salt Added"-- for years, finding them quite satisfactory. (I cannot compare with other mackerel products on the market, as I have not tried any that I can recall.) Starting at some point within the last year or two, however, I encountered at least one batch of the product and possibly more that obviously had to have been mislabeled; it clearly and unmistakably tasted MUCH SALTIER than it ever had before in all the years that I had been consuming it. Then, in March (2016), I encountered at least one can, from a case of twelve that I had purchased, that appeared to be packed in some type of OIL; not in the water that, throughout all the years that I had been using the product, i had always found it to be packed-in before. I underscore that in both cases-- with the mackerels that contained added salt as well as with the ones that appeared to be packed in oil-- the boxes were labeled, "In Water, No Salt Added". I would always check carefully and verify this before opening a box. On March 22nd, I reported the problems that I described above to the company, using the email address that I got from the Season web site ( [...] ). A week later, having not received any reply to my email, I re-sent it. Still nothing. Finally, on April 12th, some three weeks after sending my initial email, I received a reply requesting that I provide the UPC for the product-- something I had already done in my initial email. I replied that same day, quoting and highlighting the portion of my original email that contained the UPC. It has now been nearly six weeks and I have yet to receive any further response from Season/Manischewitz. In conclusion: The "Season Skinless & Boneless Mackerels in Water, No Salt Added" that I had enjoyed for a number of years-- the one that I had no reason to believe was anything other than the product indicated on the label-- was a fine product that I would rate at least four stars. As described above, however, I have encountered numerous cans during the past one-to-two years that, if not mislabeled, had one or more mysterious and quite severe problems. To make matters worse, my attempts at reporting the problems to Season have been met with an absolutely abysmal lack of response. For these reasons, I cannot rate this product any higher than one star. Should I see the problems rectified, I will consider raising my rating. The reasons behind my decision to write this review can be summarized as follows: 1.) To alert others of what to watch-out for when purchasing this product, 2.) To encourage others who had the same or similar experiences as mine to report them (I can't imagine that there aren't any and even /many/ such others and I am quite puzzled to not find any in the reviews here), and. 3.) To pressure Season/Manischewitz to finally respond-to the very serious quality control and customer problems that are evidenced in my report. **ADDENDUM, July 12, 2016: Specific Batch Codes*** I wish to share the specific codes printed on the boxes, respectively, for both the product that appears to be packed in oil as well as for two batches that I just sampled that are good (appear and taste to be as labeled: packed in water, without added salt): Appears to be packed in OIL: "AGR: 1927 CN314Y Best By: 12/31/2017 BN" GOOD: Best By: BJ.L.331 U-MA 1709 11/27/2016 BJ.L.184 Z-MA 1709 07.03.2018