How to Buy a Fake at the Price of a Delicacy

Redfish and red caviar are considered authentic delicacies. Salmon is a noble fish with fantastic taste and a unique composition of macro-and microelements and vitamins. For some inhabitants of our world, redfish is a daily diet, while for others, it is a delicacy on the festive table, which is carefully chosen so as not to fall for a fake. There are many salmon and red kosher caviar manufacturers on the market today, but not every purchase can benefit your body. Therefore, it is essential to buy fish from a trusted manufacturer with a good reputation in the market and reviews from satisfied customers.

The Vostochny Bereg / Bering seafood company has been on the market for over twenty years. The company is engaged in supplying and processing red caviar and fish from the Bering Sea - the richest Kamchatka Territory. It is in Kamchatka that the best kosher salmon is found. Thanks to unique technologies, Vostochny Bereg / Bering seafood produces salted red wild salmon caviar within four hours of being caught. This method allows the production of eco-friendly, tasty kosher food.

The Kamchatka Peninsula stands out for its fresh, wholesome, high-quality fish, where the culture of consuming fish and red caviar was born. What can not be said about Alaska, where salmon roe comes from, is of poor quality, often unripe, sour, and has lost its taste. Therefore, consumers who value taste and their health should opt for Kamchatka salmon and red caviar.

Tender dietary salmon meat is beneficial. However, fish are different fish. Salmon in the price category is higher in cost than trout and cheap simple pink salmon. Therefore, under the guise of salmon, some unscrupulous sellers sell ordinary white fish to get a profit. Especially when selling fillets or cuts, it is tough to distinguish between fish species. Sometimes only DNA analysis can tell what kind of fish is in the package.

The fish look presentable on the counter and is tinted to give it a brighter color. To enhance the taste, additives are often included in the finished product; gelatin is added to the fillet to increase the volume of the fish. In addition, some manufacturers use cheap preservatives for lightly salted foods - chemicals and modified butter. And to remove bones, special chemical solvents are used - the fish is immersed in a chemical reagent, and the bones become soft because removing bones mechanically is a long and expensive process.

Producers even dye white fish red, passing it off as a delicacy. It is easy to distinguish such fish - when stained, the paint will lie evenly and color not only the meat but also all the veins of the fish. Natural unpainted salmon has veins and white bones. There are such cheap varieties of fish as pollock and cod, painted red like salmon.

Real salmon meat is pale pink, sometimes slightly grayish. It is tender, thin, and not fleshy. Wild salmon is valued, not farmed. Farms that produce salmon artificially often resort to adding growth hormones to make the fish gain weight faster.

The meat of most fish in the world is light and white. And salmon has a pink color due to a unique natural diet - it feeds on crustaceans during the marine period of its life. Shrimp, krill, and other small crustaceans feed on algae, which produce astaxanthin, a pink-orange carotenoid. This substance saturates the crustaceans and then colors the salmon. It turns out to be a natural food chain rich in vitamins.

 Growing salmon on farms is much more profitable and cheaper than hunting it in the sea. But the only problem is that farmed salmon cannot consume as many crustaceans as wild kosher salmon, so they feed the fish with compound feed and granules with additives of astaxanthin, sometimes synthetic. Natural astaxanthin is considered safe, but more often today, they have begun to use a cheaper dye - canthaxanthin, which also belongs to carotenoids. It is the reputation and safety of this supplement that not all doctors are sure of. A few decades ago, American doctors concluded that carotenoids hurt human vision. Of course, the dose of carotenoids should be high, but in any case, a natural product is always better in quality than a product with additives.

Kosher salmon and red caviar are a storehouse of nutrients. First of all, salmon contains proteins, the meat of this fish is soft, tasty, and quickly digested. Salmon is rich in vitamins A, B, C, D, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, and Omega-3 polyunsaturated acids. Omega-3 acids protect against cardiovascular diseases, restore and maintain vision, improve brain function, reduce nervousness and prevent the risk of developing diabetes.

To buy real kosher salmon and high-quality red salmon caviar, paying attention to well-known manufacturers is better. It is good to purchase whole individuals to assess the condition of the fish - its eyes and gills. The eyes should be slightly bulging and clear, and the gills should be red or dark, but not brown. A boneless fillet or even color without veins is not worth buying - it contains chemicals. It is not worth buying pressed fillets - it often gets leftovers from production.

Red caviar cannot be cheap. In such a jar, there is an imitation - gelatin, and agar-agar, imitating eggs. Flavor enhancers, fish oil, and broth are added to such artificial caviar to make it smell like real caviar, and dyes are responsible for fake coloring eggs. There will be no benefit from such a product.

The main thing for a person who cares about himself and his loved ones is to choose a quality product that the whole family will truly appreciate for its great taste and health benefits. The best and healthiest fish and caviar are noble salmon and kosher red caviar from Kamchatka. Vostochny Bereg / Bering seafood is an expert in catching real wild salmon and producing delicious, healthy red caviar.