Red flesh
Medium Fatty Tuna (Chutoro)
【Nigiri sushi: Akami】
The most popular sushi topping in the Kanto region is Bluefin tuna. Bluefin tuna accounts for only about 1% of the world's tuna catch, making it very valuable and expensive. Chutoro is the most popular. On the other hand, Red seabream is most popular in Kansai, Shikoku, and Kyushu. However, in the rest of the world, it is Salmon.
Chuturo meat is on both the belly and back and has moderate fat. Compared to Akami, the body is a little whitish and has a high-fat content. It doesn’t have many lines in the meat and both the mellow feeling on the tongue and the subtle acidity are irresistible. Chutoro exists between Akami and Otoro and shares the positive features of both of them.
Main production area
Hokkaido Aomori Wakayama Miyazaki
Season
Autumn－Winter