I'm a seafood kinda girl and I love me some beautiful red salmon! Salmon can be a very healthy part of your diet. It's high in omega-3 fatty acids and protein, which has shown to be beneficial for joint cartilage, insulin effectiveness and control of inflammation in the digestive tract.
Farmed Salmon are raised on an unnatural diet of grains and antibiotics to plump them up. This diet causes their flesh to be grey in color. To compensate for the lack of color, they are fed synthetic astaxanthin, a product of phytochemicals, not approved for human consumption because of its toxic properties. Farmed salmon is usually marketed in grocery stores and restaurants as Atlantic Salmon.
Wild Salmon gets its pinkish-red color from natural carotenoids in their diet. Wild salmon tends to be leaner than the farm-raised variety. The flesh will be marked by thin white strips (fat marks.) If it is pale with wide fat marks, it's farm-raised. The best salmon to look for is either Alaskan Salmon or Sockeye Salmon. Alaskan sockeye salmon is not allowed to be farmed so you can guarantee it will be wild. A characteristic of sockeye salmon is that its flesh will be bright red.
Farmed Salmon are raised on an unnatural diet of grains and antibiotics to plump them up. This diet causes their flesh to be grey in color. To compensate for the lack of color, they are fed synthetic astaxanthin, a product of phytochemicals, not approved for human consumption because of its toxic properties. Farmed salmon is usually marketed in grocery stores and restaurants as Atlantic Salmon.
Wild Salmon gets its pinkish-red color from natural carotenoids in their diet. Wild salmon tends to be leaner than the farm-raised variety. The flesh will be marked by thin white strips (fat marks.) If it is pale with wide fat marks, it's farm-raised. The best salmon to look for is either Alaskan Salmon or Sockeye Salmon. Alaskan sockeye salmon is not allowed to be farmed so you can guarantee it will be wild. A characteristic of sockeye salmon is that its flesh will be bright red.