Farmed salmon has Canthaxanthin colouring added to its feed to stop it looking grey.

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Please forgive the Posting to several Groups; This has been done because

Salmon has been discussed at some time on most of them. Although Salmon is

high in the Essential Fatty Acids " farmed " Salmon may not be as nutritious

as " wild " Salmon. Also your Market may have wild Salmon only a few times a

year. Recently Wal-Mart had some frozen wild Salmon. An as has been said

before; Canned Salmon with the word Alaska embossed on the lid is wild, it

is canned on a ship in the Ocean. The two kinds; Pink and Red are

different species.

 

 

> D. Telegraph 28.1.03 " WHY PINKER SALMON MAY BE A RISK " The European

> Commission will lower the permitted amount of the food colouring

> Canthaxanthin from 1st December. This food additive builds up in the

RETINA

> OF THE HUMAN EYE & affects sight. The amount allowed in salmon feed will

be

> lowered from 80mgs a kilo to 25mg a kilo. It will be reduced to 8mgs for

> hen feed. This colouring is used to give salmon a pink-red colour & to

> colour egg yolks to the yellow shade food producers want. Natural wild

> salmon are pink from eating shrimps etc. but farmed salmon has

> Canthaxanthin colouring added to its feed to stop it looking grey.

 

The excerpt is from the " gettingwell " list. It got there from a British

publication.

 

Placing " WHY PINKER SALMON MAY BE A RISK " in a search will provide more on

this subject.

 

Regards,

 

Lorenzo

 

 

 

 

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