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n. The skin and blubber of a whale, traditionally used as food by the Inuit.
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Muktuk is the traditional Inuit/ Eskimo and Chukchi meal of frozen whale skin and blubber.
Muktuk is most often made from the skin and blubber of the bowhead whale, although the beluga and the narwhal are also used. Usually eaten raw, it is today occasionally finely diced, breaded, deep fried, and served with soy sauce. It is also sometimes pickled. When chewed raw, the blubber becomes oily, with a nutty taste; if not diced, or at least serrated, the skin is more than a bit rubbery.
Muktuk has been found to be a good source of vitamin C, the epidermis containing up to 38 mg per . Blubber is also a source of vitamin D. However, it also contains PCBs, carcinogens that damage human nervous, immune and reproductive systems, that originate from industrial sources and are concentrated in the marine food web.
Usage examples of "muktuk".
Made from the blubber of beluga whales, Junko also knew muktuk, via bio accumulation was increasingly found to contain alarming levels of PCBS and lead.
Then they gave him some cold tea and iodine and some tablets that tasted like chalk, but denied his request for muktuk, the flavorful skin of the beluga whale.