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Salmon's muscle tissue is vascularized with blood vessels and is built for long endurance swims as opposed to white muscle which is built for short, fast bursts of speed.
If you are talking about their skin pigment then it is colored by a carotenoid-class antioxidant pigment called astaxanthin … as do lobsters, crab, shrimp, and other shellfish with reddish parts. Salmon and shellfish get astaxanthin from eating plankton (or creatures that food on plankton), which get astaxanthin from feeding on micro-algae that produce the carotenoid in the first place
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What are the pigment colors?
The pigment colors are: red, yellow and blue. Yellow and red combined makes orange. Red and blue makes violet, and blue and yellow makes green.
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.
What is the name of the pigment that makes blood appear red?
Haemoglobin
What is lipstick pigment?
A pigment is a color. A lipstick pigment is what makes it the right color and shade, for example you have red pigments in red lipstick; blue & yellow pigments in green lipsticks; etc.
What is hemoglobin content of lion?
haemoglobin is a pigment that makes the blood looks red.
What element that makes the blood red?
The protein hemoglobin, found in the red blood cells, is what makes blood red.
What does the pigment do in the red blood cell?
what does the pigment do in a red blood ell
Which pigment makes blood red?
Hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is derived from metal. That is also why the surface of mars is red, there is lots of iron in the soil.
What do pink and orange make?
It makes something that looks kinda like red but to be more specific, it would make a coral or salmon color.
Is red salmon also called sockeye?
Yes, Red salmon is also called Sockeye Salmon or Blueback salmon (in the USA).
Does klebsiella produce red pigment?
No, members of the Serratia group produce red pigment.
What condition is caused by hemoglobin?
hemoglobin is just a pigment in your blood that makes it red...carries oxygen throughout the body...
