A consumer might find it difficult to distinguish farmed salmon from wild salmon at first glance unless they read the packaging annotation. In the current salmon supply industry, it is easy to disguise farmed salmon as wild salmon by making fake tastes.
This booklet is a simple publication that helps you know the real difference between farmed salmon and wild salmon.
We can tell the most basic difference by looking at the color. Compared to farmed salmon, wild salmon always contain a higher amount of astaxanthin from their natural food environment, which explains why they show a darker hue of red.
Here is a simple color bar showing the gradient and how colors differ.
