What is salmon dark meat?

(Joe McGuckin) said:

What is the bit of dark meat that I see on salmon fillets?
I usually trim it away.

Is it fat?

Is it good or bad to eat?

It's just meat that was closer to the skin with a different
pigmentation to it. It's better than the pink meat; slightly
higher fat content than the rest, and slightly more tender.
Cook and eat it.

-sw

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What is the bit of dark meat that I see on salmon fillets?
I usually trim it away.

It's dark meat. The salmon uses the dark meat right under
the skin when it's cruising along in the water. When it
spots something it wants to eat, it surges toward it with
the rest of its muscles (the light meat). Typical slow-twitch/fast-
twitch muscle behavior.

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Is it fat?

I think it is a little higher in fat than the light meat.

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Is it good or bad to eat?

It's not bad for you. I usually scrape it off because I'm a
fussy eater. You can do whatever you like.

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Joe McGuckin

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What is the bit of dark meat that I see on salmon fillets?
I usually trim it away.

That's predominately fat... unlike how most other fish have
their body fat fairly equally distributed throughout salmon
mostly store body fat directly under their skin and in
rather large pockets along their dorsal line... these days
it's not wise to eat that fat due to the predisposition for
dangerous contaminents to have an affinity for adhering to
these creature's body fat... it's not very appetizing
anyway, I'd trim it off and discard it along with the skin.

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(Joe McGuckin) wrote

What is the bit of dark meat that I see on salmon
fillets? I usually

trim

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it away.

That's predominately fat... unlike how most other fish
have their body fat fairly equally distributed throughout
salmon mostly store body fat

directly

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under their skin and in rather large pockets along their
dorsal line...

these

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days it's not wise to eat that fat due to the
predisposition for dangerous contaminents to have an
affinity for adhering to these creature's body

fat...

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it's not very appetizing anyway, I'd trim it off and
discard it along with

the

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skin.

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Sheldon, thanks for the tip. I would never have thought of
that! Most contaminates *do* go into the fat structure of
the host. I guess I shouldn't give pieces of that red part
to my cats either then. On the rare occasions that I have
fresh fish, I give tiny pieces of that dark part to my kids
(cats). I'll stop. But, god, they love it!

kili

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That's predominately fat... unlike how most other fish
have their body fat fairly equally distributed throughout
salmon mostly store body fat directly under their skin and
in rather large pockets along their dorsal line... these
days it's not wise to eat that fat due to the
predisposition for dangerous contaminents to have an
affinity for adhering to these creature's body fat... it's
not very appetizing anyway, I'd trim it off and discard it
along with the skin.

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The website talks about farmed salmon, though, not all
salmon has this problem. It seems that the solution is to
buy only wild salmon, which is what we do anyway.

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Thanks for the info. I didnt know.

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That's predominately fat... unlike how most other fish
have their body fat fairly equally distributed
throughout salmon mostly store body fat directly under
their skin and in rather large pockets along their
dorsal line... these days it's not wise to eat that fat
due to the predisposition for dangerous contaminents to
have an affinity for adhering to these creature's body
fat... it's not very appetizing anyway, I'd trim it off
and discard it along with the skin.

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The website talks about farmed salmon, though, not all
salmon has this problem.

And you'd know how? But the topic is about defining the
darker looking meat, which regardless is fat.

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(PENMART01) said:

That's predominately fat... unlike how most other fish
have their body fat fairly equally distributed
throughout salmon mostly store body fat directly under
their skin and in rather large pockets along their
dorsal line... these days it's not wise to eat that fat
due to the predisposition for dangerous contaminents to
have an affinity for adhering to these creature's body
fat... it's not very appetizing anyway, I'd trim it off
and discard it along with the skin.

farmedanddangerous.orgfarm health.htmOpen ↗

The website talks about farmed salmon, though, not all
salmon has this problem. It seems that the solution is
to buy only wild salmon, which is what we do anyway.

Regards, Ranee

Interesting...

For moral reasons, I boycott wild salmon and only buy
farmed.

To each their own.

K.

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For moral reasons, I boycott wild salmon and only
buy farmed.

To each their own.

I agree. I'm curious what the "moral reason" for no wild
salmon is.

Mike Beede

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For moral reasons, I boycott wild salmon and only buy
farmed.

To each their own.

I agree. I'm curious what the "moral reason" for no wild
salmon is.

Mike Beede

Wild caught salmon are getting smaller and smaller, and
younger and younger, leaving fewer adults to spawn...

They are not quite an endangered species yet, but if it
keeps up, it'll get that way.

Salmon caught in the ocean never get a chance to spawn.

There is some debate about pollution being caused by
commercial fish farming, but I've yet to see any real proof.

I'd _much_ rather eat a farmed animal than a wild one. :-)

Just a personal preference!

K.

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