Tuna Chips vs Salmon Skin Chips: Which Fish Snack Wins?
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Fish snacks have quietly taken over Singapore's snack aisles. Salted egg salmon skin chips started the movement, and now tuna chips are joining the shelf. If you're standing between the two wondering which fish snack actually earns its place in your basket, this is the comparison we'd want to read ourselves: real per-serving numbers, sourced and labelled, including the rows where we lose.
What we're comparing
On one side: tuna chips — our Wild Caught Toro Chips, made with 70% wild-caught tuna. Every figure below comes from accredited lab testing of a 20g serving.
On the other: typical salted egg salmon skin chips, the style made famous in Singapore. Their figures below are aggregated from public nutrition databases for a standard 28g serving — not from any single brand's label, so treat them as representative rather than exact.
The honest table
| Per serving | Tuna chips (20g) | Salted egg salmon skin chips (28g) |
|---|---|---|
| Calories | 106 kcal | ~180 kcal |
| Protein | 4.36g | ~8g |
| Total fat | 5.82g | ~14g |
| Sodium | 169mg | ~190mg |
| DHA (Omega-3) | 136mg (lab-tested) | Not declared |
| EPA (Omega-3) | 20mg (lab-tested) | Not declared |
| Fish content | 70% wild-caught tuna | Varies; typically not declared |
Note the serving sizes differ (20g vs 28g). Where that changes the story, we say so below.
Where salmon skin chips win
Let's start with the row we don't win: protein. At roughly 8g per 28g serving, salted egg salmon skin chips deliver more protein than a 20g serving of tuna chips (4.36g) — and they still lead even when you adjust for serving size. Salmon skin is dense, protein-rich tissue, and frying it doesn't change that. If sheer protein per bite is your only metric, salmon skin chips are a legitimate pick, and several make our list of the best high-protein snacks in Singapore.
Gram for gram, typical salmon skin chips also carry slightly less sodium than tuna chips — per serving as packed, the numbers land close (190mg vs 169mg), so call sodium a draw in practice.
Where tuna chips win
Fat and calories. Salted egg salmon skin chips are typically fried skin coated in a butter-and-salted-egg sauce — delicious, and it shows in the numbers: ~14g fat and ~180 kcal per serving, against 5.82g fat and 106 kcal for a serving of tuna chips. If you snack more than occasionally, that gap compounds fast.
Declared, lab-tested Omega-3. Salmon skin naturally contains Omega-3 — that part of the marketing is true. But most salmon skin chip labels don't declare how much DHA or EPA survives frying and coating, so you can't actually count it. Toro Chips are lab-tested at 136mg DHA and 20mg EPA per 20g serving (544mg DHA per 80g pack). If you're tracking Omega-3 intake, a number you can verify beats an implication.
Declared fish content. We state it plainly: 70% wild-caught tuna. Most fish snacks don't declare their fish percentage at all.
So which fish snack wins?
Honest answer: it depends on what you're optimising for.
Pick salmon skin chips if you want maximum protein per serving and treat it as an occasional indulgence — the fat and calorie load is the trade.
Pick tuna chips if you want a lighter everyday fish snack with roughly half the calories and 60% less fat per serving, plus DHA and EPA numbers that are lab-verified rather than implied.
We make tuna chips, so you'd expect us to declare ourselves the winner. Instead we'll show you the table and let you decide — that's the standard we'd want every snack brand held to.
Try the numbers yourself
Wild Caught Toro Chips launch in Singapore in July 2026. Pre-order your first bag — waitlist members get 10% off — and check our full lab-tested nutrition table on the pack. New to the category? Start with What Are Tuna Chips?
Salmon skin chip figures are representative values aggregated from public nutrition databases for typical salted egg salmon skin snacks (per 28g serving) as of July 2026; individual brands vary — always check the label. Toro Chips figures are from accredited laboratory testing.