Farmed Salmon: Claims vs. Reality

🎯 Reality Check: Sketchy 🚩

📝 Why: Yes, nearly all Atlantic salmon in supermarkets is farmed, and farms add carotenoids (like astaxanthin) to their feed—this gives farmed salmon a pink/orange color similar to wild salmon. But “white” is an exaggeration. Without carotenoids, flesh would be pale grayish, not white, and certainly not appealing—but this process mimics what happens naturally in wild salmon, which eat krill and plankton. The colorant used is usually synthesized or extracted from yeast/algae; it’s not a “dangerous artificial dye” as implied.

🔗 Source: - Food Standards Agency (UK) - BBC News, “Why farmed salmon are pink”, 2019 - EFSA Journal, “Astaxanthin for Salmonids,” 2014