
Bluefin otoro
Thunnus orientalis / Thunnus thynnus
20 g per guest
- Cut
- Front belly (harakami) — the fattest part of the fish
- Fat
- MEXT food composition tables give toro 27.5 g of lipid per 100 g (308 kcal); akami 1.4 g
- Treatment
- Frozen at −35 °C for 15 hours or −20 °C for 24 hours before raw service (EU 853/2004 regime, which exempts no tuna species)
- Cutting
- Sliced to order, 12–15 mm, across the grain
- Origin
- Japan or the Mediterranean, named per lot on the delivery note







