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The investigative TV show Inside Edition sent samples of Subway's tuna salad to Applied Food Technologies, a Florida company that carries out DNA testing of seafood. According to that company, "Yes, we confirmed that tuna was definitely in all three samples we received".

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An institutional cookbook published in 1924 included a recipe for making 50 tuna sandwiches. The recipe included canned tuna, chopped celery and boiled dressing, an alternative to mayonnaise. The tuna salad was served between slices of buttered bread.

German immigrant Richard Hellmann began mass-producing mayonnaise, the other major ingredient of tuna salad, in New York City around 1905, for use by commercial food service businesses. By 1912, he was selling wide mouthed glass jars of mayonnaise to retail customers, under the brand name Hellman's.

Reuben Swinburne Clymer was the grand master of the leading American Rosicrucian organization Fraternitas Rosae Crucis from 1922 to 1966. He was an advocate of a pescatarian or fish/vegetarian diet. In 1917, he co-authored The Rose Cross Aid Cook Book with Clara Witt. They included a recipe for seafood sandwiches, including variations for canned salmon, canned shrimp and canned tuna. The seafood was removed from the can, placed on slices of buttered bread spread with a teaspoon of mayonnaise, and a lettuce leaf was added.

In 2001, Cindy Pawlcyn published a recipe for an Ahi tuna sandwich, consisting of a grilled Ahi tuna steak served on a poppyseed bun. California based restaurant chain The Habit Burger Grill serves a grilled ahi tuna filet sandwich at its over 300 restaurants.

During World War II, the Office of Price Administration required restaurants in the New York City metropolitan area to prominently post prices of 40 "basic food items". Among them was a "Tuna Fish Salad Sandwich".

In 2021, Subway Sandwiches was sued by two California consumers who claimed that the fast food chain had sold purported tuna sandwiches that were "are completely bereft of tuna as an ingredient". A representative of the company which operates over 40,000 locations worlwide, denied the allegations, saying "These claims are meritless,” adding “Tuna is one of our most popular sandwiches. Our restaurants receive 100% wild-caught tuna, mix it with mayonnaise and serve on a freshly made sandwich."

Canning of tuna began in the United States in around 1904, and it was increasingly popular as a lower cost alternative to canned salmon by the 1920s. Demand in the 1930s was heavier than supply could keep up with.

Dell Montjoy Bradley, a New York socialite, wrote a gourmet cookbook in 1893 called Beverages and Sandwiches for Your Husband's Friends. She described a sandwich made out of imported tuna that she described using the Italian word "tonno".

David Rosengarten is an American chef who is an advocate for a very simple style of finely chopped, easily spreadable tuna salad, almost like a fish pâté, reminiscent of New York City delicatessen food. New York is a city where a very wide variety of tuna sandwiches are available.

Well known 20th century American chefs including James Beard, Julia Child, and Craig Claiborne were advocates for the tuna sandwich.

and comfort food cookbook author Sue Kreitzman.

Ina Garten is a 21st century American chef who is fond of tuna melts using gourmet ingredients.

In 2020, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Kamala Harris debated methods of preparing a tuna melt, with Warner advocating a quick microwave oven technique, while Harris took a more complex gourmet approach.