I was talking with my friend who was shocked to hear that they added coloring to farm raised salmon. Does anyone have a picture of a farm raised salmon without color added to it? I am wondering how 'gray' it is before the coloring is added. I tried googling but was unable to find one. The best I could find was the SalmoFan which is the marketing materials the the drug companies give to the fish farmers.
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by heteronormative
Funny story. I have a friend hasis allergies to fresh salmon but can eat farm raised without issue. Ocean change maybe.
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by NHborn
Complete misinformation on "dying salmon meat".
The salmon farms feed their fish pellets. The pellets are formulated to include algae, shrimp and krill meal which are high in carotenoids and which the salmon would eat naturally in the wild. The carotenoids in the feed are naturally incorporated into the muscle as they grow, just as they would eating shrimp and krill and other fish in the wild. That's how farmed salmon get their color. Not Bubba sitting at the filter table dipping the filets in orange dye, or injecting them to change the color. Not saying they didn't do that 30-40 years ago ... But it's not something practiced today and has not been for a while. Technology in farmed fish feed has greatly advanced since then.
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by FLAquaGuy
Is that true for all farmed salmon? The farmed salmon fillets sold in the seafood department where I work is labelled as color added.
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by MeatHead1313
I can't speak for all farmed salmon...but many countries and companies have standards regarding whether they allow or use artificial or natural carotenoids. If they use artificial carotenoids in the feed formulation it has to say "color added" when the fish is sold, just like any other food product. Doesn't mean the filet itself has been dyed.
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by FLAquaGuy
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