Customer Reviews

Reese Medium Smoked Oysters, 3.7-Ounce, 10-Count Cans

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If you buy smoked oysters, you know this brand already. Its probably the most common one out there. I find Amazon's prices beat the local grocery, it's always packed well, and the expiration dates are over a year away. I eat a lot of these as I tend to run Iron poor in my blood, and the doc said that oysters are probably one of the best (read most easily digestible) sources for Iron. While there are pills, studies have found you're MUCH better off getting it from a food source

These oysters taste good, no question, but cottonseed oil is unhealthful. If you want details (you should), google on, for example, "Dr Weil cottonseed oil". I'll quote a tiny bit: "[Cottonseed oil is] definitely not [OK]. [...] in my book, [...] one of the first things I ask readers to do is to go through their pantry shelves and throw out anything made with cottonseed oil. I regard it as unhealthy because it is too high in saturated fat and too low in monounsaturated fat. What's more, cottonseed oil may contain natural toxins and probably has unacceptably high levels of pesticide residues (cotton is not classified as a food crop, and farmers use many agrichemicals when growing it)."

So there you have it.

When buying oysters (or sardines, or tuna, or whatever) in oil, I use the following heuristic: either olive oil, or no oil at all (go for water, or tomato sauce, or similar). If you want oysters, go with Crown Prince oysters, which are packed in pure olive oil and can be had from Trader Joe's for two-twenty-nine a tin (I'm not affiliated with them in any way, shape, or form: this is my personal opinion based on direct experience with the product that I bought myself with me own good money).

I have eaten Reese's Smoked Oysters for years. I am sorry to say that their recent cans have not been as good tasting as they used to be. I started looking at where they are from, and suspect that the source of the oysters may have contributed. In general we have been avoiding eating foods from Thailand, China, and some other Asian countries. With all the problems with items from China in particular, we prefer to eat USA produced foods and buy locally as much as possible

I've had several different kinds of smoked oysters. By far, these are the best. Not only are they great tasting, they are packed in spring water and not in oil. A definite plus in my book!