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Also known as:
Freshwater species include rainbow, lake, brook or speckled, golden, cutthroat, brown, and steelhead or salmon trout. Saltwater species include gray, silver, coral (Leopard fish) and spotted or white trout.

Description:
Waters: Fresh and saltwaters of the world. Aquacultured worldwide.

Trout are long, thin speckled fish ranging in color from silvery-gray (eg. rainbow trout) to brown (eg. brown trout). They range in size from 6 to 20 inches and in weight from 8 ounces to 50 lbs.

Trout meat is usually pale orange-pink, sometimes a deeper red-pink (though young trout are often white-fleshed). It is rich and full-flavored, with a firm yet creamy texture and moderate to high fat content.

Best Cooking:
Whole trout is often stuffed and baked. Fillets can be pan-fried, poached, steamed, broiled, or grilled (use a grilling basket).

Buying Tips:
Look for bright, shiny skin and flesh that shimmers reflectively.

Nutrition Value:
Trout (farmed), 3 oz. (85g) (cooked, dry heat)
Calories: 144
Protein: 20.6g
Carbohydrate: 0.0g
Total Fat: 6.1g
Fiber: 0.0g
Excellent source* of: Niacin (7.5mg), and Vitamin B12 (4.2mcg)
Good source* of: Pantothenic acid (1.1mg), and Selenium (12.7mcg)

When cooked (dry heat), trout (rainbow, wild) provides 1.175 grams of omega-3 fatty acids, derived from EPA** (0.468g), DHA*** (0.52g), and ALA**** (0.187 grams), per 100 grams of trout (rainbow, wild).

When cooked (dry heat), trout (rainbow, farmed) provides 1.236 grams of omega-3 fatty acids, derived from EPA** (0.334g), DHA (0.82g), and ALA****(0.082g), per 100 grams of trout (rainbow, farmed).

*Foods that are an “excellent source” of a particular nutrient provide 20% or more of the Recommended Daily Value. Foods that are a “good source” of a particular nutrient provide between 10 and 20% of the Recommended Daily Value.
**EPA - Eicosapentaenoic Acid
***DHA - Docosahexaenoic Acid
****ALA - Alpha Lipoic Acid

Substitutes for Trout:
Salmon (in some cases)

Notes:
Wild trout are usually much more flavorful than the farm- raised variety.
You will be hard pressed to find wild trout in supermarkets or even specialty fish stores store-bought trout is nearly always farm-raised and, unfortunately, of inferior quality.