If you follow our blog regularly, you’ll know that here at N1, in addition to providing the best quality meat Cape Town has to offer, along with a wide variety of frozen foods and pastries, we also love trivia, and we often share some of our favourite fun facts on a vast number of topics. This time around, courtesy of our favourite trivia source, FactRetriever, we are sharing some fascinating snippets about another of our superior N1 products, Halaal fish.

For example, did you know?

• Most fish have taste buds all over their body. Catfish have over 27,000 taste buds, while humans have only around 7,000.
• A seahorse can move each of its eyes separately. One eye can look forward while the other looks backwards. Seahorses can also change their colour to match their surroundings.
• Most fish reproduce by laying eggs, though some fish, such as great white sharks, give birth to live babies called pups.
• Fish use a variety of low-pitched sounds to convey messages to each other. They moan, grunt, croak, boom, hiss, whistle, creak, shriek, and wail. They do not have vocal cords, but they use other parts of their bodies to make noises, such as vibrating muscles against their swim bladder.
• Fish can form schools containing millions of fish. They use their eyes and something called a lateral line to hold their places in the school. The lateral line is a row of pores running along the fish’s sides from head to tail. Special hairs in the pores sense changes in water pressure from the movements of other fish or predators.
• Fish have sleep-like periods where they have lowered response to stimuli, slowed physical activity, and reduced metabolism but they do not share the same changes in brain waves as humans do when they sleep.
• A male emperor angelfish lives together with up to five female mates. If the emperor angelfish dies, one of the females turns into a male fish and becomes the leader of the group.

Now that’s something for the books - who knew emperor angelfish could be so adaptable! And did you also know that in Japan, they eat something called fugu, or puffer fish, a succulent but lethal delicacy which contains tetrodotoxin, a deadly poison. It’s so delicious that Japanese gourmets risk their lives to prepare it and to make this high-risk dish, chefs must have a certificate from a special school that teaches preparation of the toxic fish.

Luckily there’s no need to worry about any of that with our N1 range of Halaal fish - you can rest assured that our products are perfectly safe, deliciously tasty and of the best quality at all times! So, call N1 today and arrange your next delivery.