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I’ve heard farmed fish is naturally a grey color and that it is dyed pink or red – is this true?

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I’ve heard farmed fish is naturally a grey color and that it is dyed pink or red – is this true?

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Wild salmon range in colour from pink to red because of the food they eat. Since farmed salmon do not benefit from a wild diet, colourants (canthaxanthin and astaxanthin) are added to their feed to alter their flesh from an unappealing grey to a marketable “salmon” colour.