Secrets Of Your Supermarket Food Channel 5

[Barsel]

Any of you watch this programme last night?
After seeing what happens to farmed salmon, it's put me right off buying it in future.They only spoke about salmon but it got me wondering if other fish like cod are farmed and if they face the same problems.

[barry1010]

Cod isn’t farmed. I haven’t bought farmed fish for years and wild red salmon is our treat

[Barsel]

barry, I buy 2 salmon fillets from Tesco, but if you read the description it does say it's farmed in Scotland.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/296920881

[Barsel]

Sorry I misread that, I thought you were saying salmon isn't farmed.
Where can you buy wild red salmon and know it isn't farmed?

[Ken4155]

The only thing that will put me off eating fish is if I find so much as a single bone.
A couple of years back, my adult son went through a phase of watching programmes and youtube clips on 'how things are made'. Put him off almost everything in his cupboards and freezer.
I also have a friend who will not eat duck. Ask him why and he will reply, "Because I've seen what they eat in the canal."

[iluvmargie]

Barsel - didn't see the programme, what happens to farmed salmon please?

[Tilly2]

Wild Atlantic or Pacific salmon are what you need to buy but they are costly. However, the colour, taste and texture are incomparable to farmed salmon.

Our once a month splurge...:-)

[Barsel]

Ken, I don't think that section of the programme was to put you off, They were just pointing out a downfall of farming salmon and it seems they have a cure for it, but it was enough to put me off buying it in the future and instead I will look at buying wild caught salmon although I expect it will be more expensive.

[Barsel]

iluvmargie sorry I'd rather not say as it might put others off buying it. You could always watch it on catch up.

[Barsel]

Tilly do you buy it from a supermarket or a fishmonger?

[Tilly2]

Sainsburys or Waitrose, Barsel.

It's not always available but when it is, we snap it up!

[Barsel]

Tilly have just looked at Tesco site as this is where I shop, and they do the Finest wild caught Sockeye salmon which is £6.50 or Tesco wild caught Keta salmon at £4. I've no idea what the difference is apart from the price as they are similar weights.

[Tilly2]

Keta salmon tends to be thinner portions. The sockeye is the one to go for, Barsel. Lovely, meaty, dark red pieces.

[barry1010]

I prefer sockeye. It is a lovely deep red colour and bursting with flavour.

[barry1010]

As I can't get to my fishmonger at the moment I've been buying this from Ocado

https://www.leapwildfish.co.uk/products/product/sockeye-salmon-side-450g/

[AuntPollyGrey]

What shocked me was how 'fresh' fish in the supermarkets can be up to 10 days old.

[barry1010]

It's much the same at the fishmonger, APG

[andres]

I never buy farmed fish. Haven't done for years.

[barry1010]

I won't eat basa either (also called Vietnamese catfish, panga, river cobbler). If you see any frozen fish fillets, fingers or cakes described as 'white fish' on the box 9 times out of 10 it is basa. It usually tells you in very small print on the back of the box.

[teacake44]

Smoked bacon, isn't smoked, its sprayed with a flavouring. A bit like them tarts from Baywatch, Spray tan. Just saying.

[douglas9401]

Delightful to have either for breakfast though. :-)