How freeze-dried pink salmon pieces look up close

What does freeze dried salmon look like? In our photos the pieces look golden orange to tan, in small angular flakes and chunks, and every one looks broken rather than whole. The pieces include skin. This description comes from our product photos, not from the label, so treat it as a look, not a promise.

What color is freeze-dried salmon?

In our photos, the pieces look golden orange to tan. One photo shows them loose in a small pile, and in that shot they lean toward orange. Another shows the pieces inside the bag, where they look paler, somewhere between tan and peach.

One shot has the pieces out in the open, and the other has them sitting inside the bag. We cannot tell you how much of the difference is the salmon and how much is the lighting.

Photos shift with light, and a screen shifts them again. So we make no promise about an exact shade, and we would rather say that than have you hold a pouch up to your monitor. If you want to see the colors for yourself, the photos live on our product page.

We read nothing into the color. It is a description of what a camera caught, and that is where it stops. If you are the kind of person who sorts paint swatches by the way they look under the garage lights, you already know how much a bulb can change a color.

Why is it called pink salmon if it looks tan?

Pink salmon is the name of the fish. Every bag of ours is wild-caught pink salmon, and the name tells you which salmon is in the pouch. It is not a description of the color of the pieces.

That is why the product is called pink salmon while the photos show golden orange to tan. Both are true, and they are answering different questions. One names the fish, and the other describes what you see in a photo of the dried pieces.

Nothing we have on file explains why the dried pieces look the way they do, so we offer no reason.

What shape and size are the pieces?

In our photos the pieces are small angular flakes and chunks. They look flat-faced, and they sit loose rather than packed together. None of them looks whole. They all look broken.

On size, there is no hand in any of our photos, so we can only compare the pieces to each other and to the bag. Against the bag they look small to medium, and some look a bit larger than their neighbors. Our listing puts it in words instead: medium sized pieces, each one able to snap down into small, quick rewards.

Put together, the photos give you this:

• Shape: angular flakes and chunks, flat on one face
• Color: golden orange to tan in the loose pile, paler in the bag
• Size: small to medium, with some pieces a bit larger than others
• Whole pieces: none that we can see in the photos

We give no measurement in inches or centimeters, because we have none to give. For how the pieces feel and how they crunch, our texture guide covers it, so this page leaves that alone.

Is there skin on the pieces?

Yes. The pieces include skin. That is the whole answer from our side.

If skin is the question you actually came with, our skin guide is where those questions live. One more thing for an open pouch. The bag says: "Reseal the pouch once it is open and store it cool and dry."

These pieces are raw salmon that went through the freeze dryer, so give your hands a wash once you are done with them. That habit applies whether they look orange, tan or somewhere in between.

For the rest of our guides, the guides page lists them all.