According to two plaintiffs who recently filed a lawsuit against the sandwich chain, the Subway tuna salad is actually “a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna,” and that the contents have been blended together to make something that looks and smells and tastes like tuna.
What’s happening here?
According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Subways’s tuna is “made from anything but tuna.” The suit states that samples of the sandwich were lab tested and the results came back: no fish. The lawsuit does not state what the “tuna” ingredients actually are.
All that said, this is not the first time that Subway’s food has come under scrutiny. In 2017, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s
Marketplace program
DNA-tested pieces of Subway chicken. The results showed that Subway’s oven-roasted chicken was only 42.8 percent chicken. Subway rejected those claims.
Relatedly, in 2020
Ireland’s Supreme Court ruled that Subway’s bread had too much sugar in it to meet the country’s legal definition of bread.