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I bought some (what I was lead to believe was) organic salmon from our local fishmonger in East Dulwich. The salmon was bright orange and nothing like the pale flesh-coloured organic fish we'd purchased the week before. The owner explained that there were new policies in place regarding organic salmon and went on to say that the fish had to now be dyed in organic food colouring. We found this hard to believe but bought the fish anyway at the normal organic price.


Can anyone confirm that there is in fact a new policy to dye organic salmon in electric orange organic dye?


Thanks very much for your help.

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I prefer the taste of black olives to green olives, but I'm also aware that eating green olives is part of a balanced diet.

so I always look for green olives that have been dyed with black organic olive dye.


they may not taste as good as black olives, but when I look at them my mind believes that I'm eating black olives and not green dyed black olives

I bought organic seedless grapes last year and they had been impregnated with organic seeds to conform with new EU regulation EC-4150 (pips in the workplace) I unknowingly swallowed over 47 of these seeds and now suffer from 'vinyard knob' which can be very distressing on summer holidays.

Once upon a time, fish farms that used pesticides and medicines produced a bright orange fish, dyed with carotene pigment, to imitate the flesh of your wild salmon, whose natural diet is rich in this pigment.


"Organic" fish farms, seeking a way of marking their product out on the shelves, produced a paler beast - bravely unafraid to show us the natural woolly pallor of a caged creature deprived of its natural diet. Although the dye (naturally occurring, organic even) was in fact the least bad thing about fish farming, its absence was a useful shorthand for the "Organic" crew.


As the UK consumer became secure in the knowledge that pale, woolly Salmon = organic = good, the "non-organic" farmers also began to let their fish onto the market bearing the distinctive hue of a Vitamin-D deprived Scotsman.


So now the "organic" fisheries are dyeing their salmon to once more differentiate from the "non organic" fish.


Next year Organic salmon will be blue, non-organic salmon will be Orange again. Moxons will be charging ?12.50 per 100g wherever it comes from.

Wild Salmon get their distinctive Hue from their Diet in the sea - i.e prawns and suchlike


Farmed samon - 99.9999999999999999% of what you eat - will either be expensive( by using food containing natural shellfish/ extract ) or cheap using any manner of chemical dyes


the flech colour of a wild salmon often isnt the nuclear orange that people are so used to, dependibng on where its been lying offshore and its diet

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