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Salmon

Salmon is a fish whose muscle is eaten. Cooks bake, cure, or smoke it, and also serve it raw; it is sold canned.

  • Fish
  • Gluten-free
  • Allergen: fish

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Muscle
Family
Salmonidae
Cooked most in
The Americas, Europe
Top country
Canada
Salmon, market

Photo: Salwa Farwaneh Dameh · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use salmon

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Cure
  • Raw
  • Smoke

Shopping

Choosing and storing salmon

Sold as
Canned

Nutrition

What 100 g of salmon holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 61%Fat 39%Carbohydrate 0%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of salmon, raw
Energy197 kcal · 871 kJ
Protein20 g
Fat13 g
of which saturated2.3 g
Carbohydrate0 g
of which sugars0 g
Fibre0 g
Sodium49 mg
Cholesterol62 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of salmon, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium378 mg
Calcium9.4 mg
Iron0.26 mg
Magnesium25 mg
Zinc0.34 mg
Vitamin C3.9 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)58 µg
Folate26 µg
Vitamin B125.7 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 175167, 2684441), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where salmon is cooked

4 dishes in the catalogue use salmon. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list salmon among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with salmon

4 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Lohikeitto

    Finland

  • B.C. roll

    Canada

  • Saumon à l'oseille

    France

  • Dishwasher salmon

    United States

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include salmon.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: salmon in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: fishChecked and not found: soy, eggs, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
From: fishChecked and not found: egg, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

A kind of
fish

Around the world

What salmon is called

Names in 83 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    salmón · Salmoninae

  • French

    saumon

  • Italian

    salmone

  • Portuguese

    salmão

  • German

    Lachse · Seelachs · Lachs · Atlantischer Lachs

  • Dutch

    zalm · Salmoninae

  • Turkish

    somon · somon balığı

  • Russian

    лососёвые · Salmoninae

  • Polish

    Salmoninae

  • Arabic

    سلمون

  • Persian

    ماهی آزاد

  • Hebrew

    אלתית

Show all 83 languages

  • Afrikaans

    Salm

  • Albanian

    Salmoni

  • Atikamekw

    Ocacamekw

  • Azerbaijani

    Qızılbalıqlar

  • Balinese

    Salmon

  • Bangla

    স্যামন

  • Basque

    Izokin

  • Belarusian

    Ласосевыя

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    ласасёвыя

  • Betawi

    Salmon

  • Bikol

    Salmon

  • Bosnian

    losos · Salmoninae · salmon

  • Bulgarian

    Сьомга

  • Burmese

    ဆယ်လမွန်ငါး

  • Cantonese

    三文魚

  • Catalan

    salmó

  • Cherokee

    ᏎᎼᏂ

  • Cheyenne

    Ma'nomá'ne

  • Chinese

    鮭魚 · 三文鱼

  • Croatian

    losos · Salmoninae · salmon

  • Czech

    losos

  • Danish

    laks

  • Egyptian Arabic

    سلمون · salmon

  • Esperanto

    Salmo

  • Faroese

    Laksur

  • Fijian

    Salmon

  • Filipino

    Salmon

  • Finnish

    lohi

  • Galician

    Salmoninos

  • Haitian Creole

    Somon

  • Hausa

    Salmon

  • Hindi

    सैल्मन

  • Hungarian

    lazac · Salmo salar · Trutta salar

  • Icelandic

    Lax

  • Ido

    Salmono

  • Indonesian

    Salmon

  • Interlingua

    Salmoninae

  • Irish

    bradán

  • Japanese

    サーモン

  • Javanese

    Iwak Salmon

  • Kannada

    ಸಾಲ್ಮನ್‌

  • Kazakh

    Лососъ

  • Latin

    Salmoninae

  • Latvian

    lašu apakšdzimta · laši

  • Lithuanian

    lašišos

  • Macedonian

    лосос

  • Malay

    Salmon

  • Māori

    hāmana · tāmana

  • Min Nan Chinese

    Âng-liân-hî

  • Minangkabau

    Salmon

  • Northern Frisian

    Laksen

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    laks

  • Old English

    leax

  • Pashto

    سالمون

  • Romanian

    somon · lostriță

  • Scots

    salmon

  • Scottish Gaelic

    Bradan

  • Serbian

    лосос · Salmoninae · салмон · лососи

  • Slovenian

    losos

  • Sundanese

    Salmon

  • Swedish

    Laxfiskar

  • Tajik

    Озодмоҳӣ · Озодмохи

  • Tamil

    சல்மான் மீன்

  • Tatar

    Сөләйман балыклары

  • Thai

    ปลาแซลมอน

  • Toki Pona

    kala Samon

  • Ukrainian

    лосось

  • Venetian

    salmon

  • Vietnamese

    cá hồi

  • Waray

    Salmon

  • Western Panjabi

    سالمن

  • Wu Chinese

    鲑鱼

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q2796766

Photos

Photo: Salwa Farwaneh Dameh · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons