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Suspicious Tuna


Liza

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  • 1 year later...

How timely this thread resurfaced... I just noticed "dyed salmon" at my local Stop&Shop, it was prepackaged and mentioned on the label - total turn-off.

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I had a conversation about dyed tuna with my fish guy. It seems that a lot of tuna is pumped full of CO2 which gives the jewel toned color.

"Some people see a sheet of seaweed and want to be wrapped in it. I want to see it around a piece of fish."-- William Grimes

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I had a conversation about dyed tuna with my fish guy.  It seems that a lot of tuna is pumped full of CO2 which gives the jewel toned color.

Tuna and CO2

And when a less-then-reputable-fishmonger sells you poor quality tuna that has been ‘hopped up’ it leaches a pinkish scum as it defrosts.

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I dunno... I am floundering around with the CO2 concept.

edit to add: I just read a little more closely... That is CO (carbon monoxide) not CO2 (carbon dioxide).

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From the front page of this site I Smelt something was going on here so, even if you are hard of Herring Shark my words :

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  • 2 weeks later...

pmji, i'm new here :). The product is called saku-imported frozen from the Phillipines and other SE Asian processors.

The color is due to a "natural smoke" color enhancer. It's some da-glo stuff. I've used it before, was not my choosing.

hth, danny

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