Why is salmon meat pink?

Moment of Um

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Salmon meat can make a delicious meal and, since it has plenty of vitamins and minerals, can be a great part of a nutritious diet. What really makes salmon stand out though is its pinkish-orange color. What's up with that? We asked aquatic biologist Dr. Keegan Lutek to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is The Moment of Um.
0:07.0	Moment of Um, um, um, um.
0:10.0	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm your host, Allison Scarda.
0:17.0	Today is a very important day. It's Brainson's 14th annual Friday Fish Fry Festival.
0:25.6	I offered to cook this year because my head is perfectly shaped to really rock one of those tall
0:30.9	chefs hats. Actually, I got so excited about the hat that I forgot.
0:36.1	I didn't know how to cook fish.
0:38.7	It can't be that hard though, right?
0:40.2	I mean, what's the worst that can happen when I look this good.
0:44.0	Chef hat on?
0:47.0	Okay, I just need to find the fish.
0:49.0	Now let's see, if I wear a fillet of fish, where would I be?
0:54.2	Inside cabinets, under the floorboards,
0:58.5	on the tippy top of this high and extremely rickety shell.
1:06.0	Oops. Aha, yes, I would be in the fridge.
1:10.0	I knew that.
1:11.0	Okay, got the cradle fish fillets, we got Haddock, Walleye, Bluegill, salmon.
1:19.0	Wait!
1:20.3	Why is the salmon pink when all of the other fish is white?
1:24.0	Did the salmon go bad?
1:27.0	Is it mutant salmon?
1:29.0	Will it give my co-workers food poisoning?
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