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No it is not red meat.
Scientifically, fish is not meat. Fish is fish, just like vegetables are vegetables.
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Is salmon classified as red meat?
No! Nor is it really "White Meat". It is classified as fish meat, so therefore, it is white meat, but it is sold as pink or red. The red coloring is from the pigments in crustaceans that the salmon eats. Occasionally, a salmon will lack the ability to process the pigments during digestion, and the meat will be white. Approximately 1 out of every 20 salmon is actually white.
Why is the meat on salmon pink?
Salmon eat large amounts of a tiny shrimp called Krill. The pigment in the shell of the Krill is red and over a long period of consumption the flesh of the salmon absorbs the red pigment from the Krill. Because of dyes absorbed from the crustaceans that they eat.
Which kosher fish have red meat?
Obviously salmon and if I'm not wrong snapper is as well.
Is salmon meat?
Yes Salmon is a vegetarian food . Are you sure? Salmon is surely animal flesh.
Do cougars eat salmon?
Cougars do eat salmon. Cougars like to eat fish in general. They prefer red meat like deer and elk when they can get them.
Is there a type of fish that is red?
Salmon meat is red. Also, the largest freshwater fish, the Arapaima, also known as the Paiche has red tinged scales. It's found in the Amazon.
Is red salmon also called sockeye?
Yes, Red salmon is also called Sockeye Salmon or Blueback salmon (in the USA).
Red salmon or pink salmon?
a touch of red amidst the pink never hurt
What is in an Estuary Biome that salmon eat?
Sodium Meat
Why is salmon meat mushy once cut open?
The salmon is at the End of its life cycle and has stopped eating.
Which color is Alaska Red Salmon?
The correct name for this salmon species is actually "sockeye salmon". Red salmon is just a nickname. The sockeye salmon in Alaska, which lives in streams, are red in colour. As their nickname suggests. Sockeye salmon that live in the ocean (not in Alaska's streams) are blue-tinged with silver. See the related link below.
Which meat does an aboriginal?
They eat fish( salmon for the plains people)
