Benzene is a colorless, flammable liquid with a sweet odor. It evaporates quickly when exposed to air. Benzene is formed from natural processes, such as volcanoes and forest fires, but most exposure to benzene results from human activities. Benzene is among the 20 most widely used chemicals in the United States.
Lafrenz also attributes the taste of farmed branzino to the fish meal fed they are fed. Branzino, like salmon, is a carnivorous fish. In large aquaculture operations, small fish are caught and made into feed.
Because branzino is farmed, it can be counted on not just to be there and to be a certain price but to provide a certain amount of flesh, with little variation. A branzino, MacGregor said, has a âusable meat yieldâ of 42 percent, in comparison with 35 to 40 percent for black sea bass.