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Salmon flesh isn't naturally orange. Salmon are actually white-fleshed fish; their pink-orange color comes from astaxanthin, a carotenoid pigment they absorb by eating krill and shrimp. Farmed salmon whose feed lacks this pigment stay a grayish-white.
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