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What is Upcycled Salmon? (ground up fish heads, frames, fins, and tails) A Guide to This Sustainable Seafood
The Kitchen Know How ^ | June 11, 2024 | Thomas

Posted on 03/25/2026 5:44:29 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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What is Upcycling?

Upcycling is the process of transforming discarded materials (ED NOTE: fish heads, frames, fins, and tails) into new, higher quality products It diverges from recycling by focusing on adding value, not just reusing.

Food upcycling tries to make use of food scraps and leftovers that would otherwise be thrown away. These leftover bits get creatively repurposed into nutritious, flavorful ingredients.

How Upcycled Salmon is Made

Upcycled salmon utilizes the trimmings and off-cuts generated during salmon filleting and processing, Around 75% of a salmon goes unused when it’s filleted for steaks and fillets

Rather than discarding these nutrient-rich scraps, innovative companies are now collecting them from processors and turning them into products like salmon burgers, sausages, fish cakes, and jerky.

The salmon bits are chopped, minced, seasoned, and combined with binders to make eco-friendly seafood items. These products deliver the same nutritional benefits as conventional salmon in a sustainable form.

The Benefits of Upcycled Salmon

There are many benefits for the environment, businesses, and consumers from using recycled salmon:

Reduces Waste: Salmon trimmings are turned into edible products instead of being discarded. This decreases waste across the seafood supply chain.

Promotes Sustainability: By utilizing waste, upcycled salmon reduces the need to catch more fish. This eases pressure on wild populations and the oceans.

Offers Affordability: As a method for repurposing scraps, upcycled salmon costs less than conventional fillets, making sustainable seafood affordable.

Provides Nutrition: Upcycled items contain the same levels of protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals as regular salmon.

Boosts Profits: Companies can earn extra revenue by selling upcycled goods made from waste previously treated as a sunk cost.

Adds Variety: Consumers benefit from new, value-added seafood options that promote sustainability.


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: salmon; solyentgreen; upcycling; wef; youeatitgreenie

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Upcycled Salmon = Solyent Green of the sea.
1 posted on 03/25/2026 5:44:29 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

The Fish Heads song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDtUzRIG6I


2 posted on 03/25/2026 5:48:34 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: DoodleBob

Actually it’d be baloney of the sea.

I knew fish had a*holes, but didn’t know they had lips.


3 posted on 03/25/2026 5:48:36 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: DoodleBob

Chum. This is what you feed housecats, not people.

CC


4 posted on 03/25/2026 5:49:08 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: DoodleBob

5 posted on 03/25/2026 5:50:34 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Celtic Conservative

My cat finds processed salmon and tuna discards yummy. Me, not even willing to give them a try.


6 posted on 03/25/2026 5:52:27 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: fruser1

Feed it to the left. We’ll keep the best food for real workers and producers.


7 posted on 03/25/2026 5:53:09 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DoodleBob

I’ll have what the cats having, with a salad.


8 posted on 03/25/2026 5:57:07 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DoodleBob
upcycling (verb) - vomiting;
opposite of downcycling or
diarrhea
9 posted on 03/25/2026 5:57:09 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Tom Tetroxide
The Fish Heads song!

My very first thought!

Great minds think alike!

10 posted on 03/25/2026 5:59:44 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: DoodleBob

Soylent Salmon is fish!


11 posted on 03/25/2026 6:00:45 PM PDT by bwest
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To: DoodleBob

We toss the head, spine and tail back into the river. Hell, the whole body dies and decomposes in the water naturally, we just help it along. After the runs are complete, the river stinks pretty bad for a week or two.


12 posted on 03/25/2026 6:04:47 PM PDT by GMThrust
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To: Tom Tetroxide

13 posted on 03/25/2026 6:10:40 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: DoodleBob

I’d prefer that fish scraps be “upcycled” into garden fertilizer, as God intended.


14 posted on 03/25/2026 6:11:54 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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To: DoodleBob

Why not grind it up dry it and sell as fertilizer?


15 posted on 03/25/2026 6:12:23 PM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head)
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To: Larry Lucido

Wrong character.


16 posted on 03/25/2026 6:13:44 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Who will do the Democrat voting that Americans won’t do? - rightwingcrazy)
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To: DoodleBob

Sounds like what they do with chicken parts to make chicken nuggets.

And it sounds equally disgusting.


17 posted on 03/25/2026 6:25:59 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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I’ve filleted thousands of fish. Of them, about 50% is the usual meat, 30% is the guts, and 20% is the bones, skin and head.

When they start feeding you the lesser half, what proportion do you figure is the “upcycling” of fish guts?


18 posted on 03/25/2026 6:26:06 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Not all 2,000,000,000 muslims want to murder me. But 200,000,000 probably do.)
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To: know.your.why

Liquid fish fertilizer is what you spray on your parking strip when the homeless encampment moves in.

There might be a little over spray.


19 posted on 03/25/2026 6:27:57 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Not all 2,000,000,000 muslims want to murder me. But 200,000,000 probably do.)
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To: DoodleBob

Pet food. Chicken feed (the good stuff). Fermented fish sauces. Fertilizers for consumer markets.


20 posted on 03/25/2026 6:35:01 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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