Cuttlefish
Sepiida
Not Kosher
Description
Cuttlefish is eaten around the Mediterranean and across East and Southeast Asia. Its ink colors and flavors dishes like risotto al nero di seppia and black risotto, and the meat is breaded and fried, dried into a snack, or cooked into soups.
Cuttlefish live in tropical and temperate ocean waters, mostly in the shallows down to about 600 meters. They're found off East and South Asia, Western Europe, the Mediterranean, all of Africa's coasts, and Australia, and they're entirely absent from the Americas.
Also known as
- Sepia
- Cuttle
Cuttlefish in foreign languages
| Scientific | Sepiida |
| Hebrew | דיונונאים |
| Arabic | حبار |
| Spanish | Sepia |
| Portuguese | Choco |
| French | Seiche |
| Italian | seppia |
| German | Sepien |
| Greek | Σουπιά |
| Russian | Каракатицы |
| Turkish | Mürekkepbalığı |
| Chinese | 墨鱼目 |
| Japanese | コウイカ目 |
| Korean | 갑오징어목 |
| Hindi | समुद्रफेनी |
| Vietnamese | Bộ Mực nang |
| Thai | หมึกกระดอง |
Warnings & Kosher Issues
- A cephalopod mollusk, related to squid and octopus, with no fins or scales of the kosher kind, so it is not kosher.
- The flamboyant cuttlefish carries tetrodotoxin in its muscle, as lethal as the blue-ringed octopus, though it isn't injected.