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Is this Wild Salmon or Farmed Salmon?

Its Wild Salmon

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Its Farmed Salmon

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I cant tell because ............

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Total Votes : 19

amother

Wheat

Fri, Jul 20 2018, 11:57 am

Is this Wild Salmon or Farmed Salmon?

amother

Cerulean

Fri, Jul 20 2018, 12:04 pm

Hard to say. The farmed salmon tends to be fattier and the wild salmon leaner (and the picture looks fattier) but there are exceptions. I usually buy wild king salmon which is almost as fatty as standard farmed. Can't go by the color either.

amother

Wheat

Fri, Jul 20 2018, 2:35 pm

Now Im really confused.

I have been buying Scottish Wild Salmon by Freunds for years and a relative has been telling me not to believe its Wild.

Amarante

Fri, Jul 20 2018, 2:48 pm

Impossible to tell from a picture and actually probably impossible to tell without DNA testing. When they've done DNA testing on fish, a shockingly high percentage of fish is mislabeled - and always mislabeled as the MORE expensive species :-)

amother

Wheat

Fri, Jul 20 2018, 3:15 pm

I wonder if the fish stores know for sure.

amother

Wheat

Fri, Jul 20 2018, 4:49 pm

According to this fisherman, Wild Salmon has NO fat and if we see fat its not Wid Salmon. I cant recall ever getting salmon that had no noticeable fat.

amother

Jetblack

Fri, Jul 20 2018, 5:53 pm

I read farmed salmon doesn't have worms to worry about

jewwoman

Sat, Jul 21 2018, 5:50 pm

Wild salmon has no fat and is also a darker orange nearer red in colour

Bnei Berak 10

Sun, Jul 22 2018, 5:36 am

There is so much fraud in the food industry and if producers can make you pay more because they brand it wild salmon when it's actually farmed, it's a big temptation to do so.

lucky14

Sun, Jul 22 2018, 5:52 am

jewwoman wrote:

Wild salmon has no fat and is also a darker orange nearer red in colour

I read that they can color farmed salmon to make it look like wild. Not to trust anyone basically. It's upsetting.

Iymnok

Sun, Jul 22 2018, 6:38 am

C'mon, they put dye in the food.

yamz

Mon, Jul 23 2018, 9:27 am

Price is usually a pretty good indicator. Wild salmon, especially if not previously frozen, is much more expensive than farmed salmon. So if you weren't paying $18-40/lb, it's probably not wild. Also, if you have been buying this fish all year long, then it is probably farmed. There is a season for wild salmon. Wild salmon is caught on its way upstream to lay eggs. It isn't available fresh all year long. Hope that helps.

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