Food Coloring In Frozen Salmon

[Yenni]

I did a search on food coloring and it seems there are both good and bad food colorings. I am not sure what type this was because the company did not put it on the ingredient label. I am gonna write them and ask.

But I am pretty sure there was food coloring in it because when I touched the frozen fish my hands turned all orange. I had never seen that before and actually had no idea that they could put food coloring in it. So I ate it and got really sick.

So now I am wondering if anyone knows anything about what type they typically use in Salmon? I was looking at other packages in the store yesterday and they had it labled, so that is how I figured it out. It didn

[Felidae]

Sorry, I can't help you. I just think it disgusting to put colouring in fish or meat. It makes you wonder about the quality of the fish to begin with. I eat salmon and luckily I have never seen what you describe.

[Yenni]

I started reading about it online and some companies even put food coloring on fresh Salmon. Yeah, very nasty.

I am sticking with Halibut for now. This summer we are gonna catch our own Salmon instead. Put a bunch in the freezer.

[tummytroubles]

From my understanding, wild caught salmon should not contain red coloring. They only add this to farmed salmon since the flesh of farmed salmon doesn't get red like wild salmon. It has to do with what they eat. Evidently, people wouldn't buy the farmed salmon when it wasn't pink in color (as told to me by someone in a local meat department). People proabably thought the salmon wasn't fresh or something if it wasn't pink.

[Rachel--24]

Most salmon that you would buy in the grocery store is farmed and has "added color". By law this has to be lableled. I work in a grocery store....all of the fresh salmon has stickers on the package stating that color has been added.

The dyes are unhealthy....not to mention the antibiotics and "who knows what else" in the farmed stuff. I would only buy fresh wild salmon from a place like Whole Foods.

I react to the dyes....it has nothing to do with gluten...I just react to alot of stuff.

As far as I know the dyes do not contain gluten.

[Kaycee]

So like I have heard before, it is manufacturers giving us the customer what we want. Salmon that looks like salmon, foods that don't go off too quick, vegetables that don't look like they have been eaten by bugs, bigger servings, the list goes on. This is when they add all the additives and preservatives, and then they say they only put them in because we want food like that.

Just a little rant, being coeliac has opened up my eyes.

Cathy

[gabby]

Just a side-note:

Look for fish that says this exact phrase: Wild Caught. It legally has to say this phrase with the words in that exact orde. If it only says Wild (like wild salmon, wild perch, etc) then it is farmed. If it says 'caught wild, or caught in the wild, or anything like that, then it is not wild caught. If the name of the product is: wild organic fresh caught salmon, it is not wild caught.

[darlindeb25]

Well Gabby, that confused me just a tad! It can't be caught wild, it must be wild caught! Right?

Anyways, the thing I wanted to add, now that I guess none of us should eat farmed salmon, I have read on the package: The coloring of the salmon is a direct effect of the feed they are fed! I oftened wondered about that phrase. I know the animal digests the feed, so why should the meat be colored by the feed? Just another "fishy" statement on the wrapper, isn't it?

I think many statements are just to confuse us.

Chicken is another one. Why do they add that yellow coloring to the meat. They say that people prefer the meat to be that color, now to me, that just means it is an old, tough chicken, not that it would taste better.

The gov't has to know that allowing these companies to enhance the color has got to be something that could prove detrimental to everyone. Why would adding anything like that improve meat. Additives are a big problem for many celiacs.