Yes, that farmed Atlantic salmon at the grocery store may be a deal compared to the wild kind, but in addition to containing more toxins, the fat in the farmed fish isn't as healthy.
In fact, farmed salmon is increasingly eating cheaper food, namely vegetable oil, instead of more expensive and scarce marine feed. Now a new Norway study has found that this trend has a substantial consequence on human health.
Comparing the diets of heart patients with atherosclerosis (disease of the cardiac arteries), researchers found that patients eating wild salmon received the greatest health benefits compared to patients eating fish fed pure rapeseed oil. In addition to raising the patients' omega-3 fatty acid levels, the wild salmon group also enjoyed much better levels of marker substances for heart and vessel diseases than the patients eating the cheaper, less nutritious fish.
Source: Science Daily
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Anything that has to be dyed to get it back to it's original color isn't right.
I fully agree! Many people don't realize that farmed salmon is actually grayish in color, but turn pink or red because of the artificial colorants in their fish feed. One of the colorants used is cantaxanthin--which has been linked to retinal damage when taken orally.
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