Myths, urban legends — whatever you might call them, there are plenty of accepted ideas about seafood that aren’t necessarily true. It’s time to clear the air. We’ve done our best to examine several common seafood myths to see if they are more fiction or fact.

Fresh is better than frozen

Sure this is true in plenty of cases, but not always. Modern freezing technology allows seafood suppliers to harvest seafood at the peak of freshness and rapidly freeze it within hours of leaving the water, locking in its “just-out-of-the-water” freshness.