We don't dye farmed salmon. The colour comes from an important ingredient in their food

Atlantic salmon and sockeye salmon differ in colour because they're different species. Salmon farmer Jeanine Sumner dispels common myths surrounding dye additives explaining that all salmon receive their colour from the carotenoid pigments in their feed.

Find out more at: http://www.bcsalmonfacts.com/#!/fact/dye

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[johnnnyk]

Yes, and Farmed Salmon are fed synthetic carotenoids called astaxanthin. Any shade of red you want. But it's true, Everything else in a humans diet contains synthetic material from food coluring to synthetic hormones, synthetic vitamins, synthetic flavour, synthetic fragrance, and the list goes on and on. So really it's not that bad.

Fact: Typical Consumer is stupid and will believe this marketing

Fact: Wild Salmon are far superior than Farmed Salmon on all Fronts.

[BCSalmonFacts]

@johnnnyk thank you for taking the time to comment. For clarification, carotenoids may come from natural sources such as crustaceans, yeast culture or, more typically, and from nature-identical products, which are synthetically created (similar to how Vitamin C pills are created). Whether the carotenoids are synthesized, or come from natural sources, they provide the same health benefits to the fish.

[SalmonSlayer1991]

DYE MYTH!!! when fresh Atlantic salmon at safeway stores has an ingredient list that should speak for its self perhaps not from every BC salmon farm but come on man it states right on the wrapper

[BCSalmonFacts]

@SalmonSlayer1991 Both farmed and wild salmon receive carotenoids in their feed (via pellets/wild sources respectfully). These carotenoids are required for health, and also give salmon their pink/red colour. In fact, hatchery reared wild salmon also receive these carotenoids in their feed just like a farm-raised salmon does.

[johnnnyk]

@BCSalmonFacts Yes - the health benefits of synthetic versus natural source are the same when looking from a very narrow western scientific view of health. For me personally I don't believe that they are "nature identical" Failing to see the wholistic connection between man and food, man and the environment, man and his ancestors. when you have that connection you see that farmed salmon is counterfit a trick even an illusion. It may keep your belly full but your soul will be empty.

[BCSalmonFacts]

@BCSalmonFacts This is the same for farmed salmon – the level of carotenoids will determine the colour.

[BCSalmonFacts]

@norwaynever As Jeanine mentions in the video, the level of carotenoid pigments determines the colour of salmon. Different species of salmon, whether farmed or wild, vary in colour based on their diet that contains these carotenoids. The colour of wild salmon depends at what level in the food chain they eat, and these different foods will contain different levels of carotenoid pigments (plankton vs. krill vs. small fish), thus variance in colour.

[norwaynever]

Sorry, this does not reveal the source of color in farmed Atlantic salmon. What exactly are you feeding them that causes Atlantic salmon, a normally pale-fleshed species, to turn 'sockeye' red?

[AlaskaRanchedSalmon]

This (the dye myth) is probably the biggest load on nonsense out there about farmed salmon. Even intelligent people seem to like to hang on to this myth. Thanks for posting this video.