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Wednesday
Oct022013

Farmed vs. wild salmon: Can you taste the difference?

Does wild salmon tastes better than farmed?  The Washington Post decided to find out in a blind taste testing to see if there really is in fact a better tasting salmon.

"The fish swam the gamut. We had wild king from Washington, frozen farmed from Costco, and eight in between, including Verlasso farmed salmon from Chile, which is the first open-pen farmed salmon to get a Seafood Watch “buy” recommendation. The tasters came from the Food section and the local seafood scene. The judgments were definitive, and surprising..."

Photo Credit: National Geographic