Comments on: The Color of Farmed Salmon Comes from Adding an Antioxidant to Their Feed, with Benefits for Everyone https://modernfarmer.com/2023/03/the-color-of-farmed-salmon/ Farm. Food. Life. Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:01:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Jon https://modernfarmer.com/2023/03/the-color-of-farmed-salmon/#comment-56566 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:01:16 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=148480#comment-56566 In reply to Judy.

Thanks, Judy for your critical yet spot-on analysis of well-worded piece. I’m not an expert. Scanning this makes me think “huh, maybe I’ve been wrong about farm raised salmon.” Reading the details reminds me that while some of these food inputs CAN be created naturally – there’s no assurance from the author or any manufacturer that the inputs actually fed to the fish in our markets WERE created naturally. Makes me sigh a bit that the details seem to matter less and less each day.

]]> By: Judy https://modernfarmer.com/2023/03/the-color-of-farmed-salmon/#comment-56418 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 23:11:35 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=148480#comment-56418 Articles like this are so misleading. They only talk about the natural sources of astaxanthin to imply that is being added to the fish’s feed. Most astaxanthin is produced synthetically from petroleum derivatives and used in multiple industries including food, nutrition and animal feed. This type of astaxanthin should be avoided. Now, however, biotech companies are attempting to capitalize on the superiority of natural astaxanthin by creating genetically engineered (GE) varieties from yeast that — although far from natural — can be claimed as such on the label. If you want real astaxanthin, it must be straight from the source, which is the Haematococcus pluvialis microalgae. Several foods contain generous amounts of astaxanthin, including wild-caught Alaskan salmon, trout, krill or krill oil, shrimp and crayfish.

]]> By: Saul Chapnick https://modernfarmer.com/2023/03/the-color-of-farmed-salmon/#comment-56216 Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:10:40 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=148480#comment-56216 Then why is the flesh of farmed trout reddish in color? Their natural color is white.

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