Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

undyed (haddock)

English answer:

without addition of food coloring

Added to glossary by Joanna Borowska
Aug 3, 2006 04:26
17 yrs ago
English term

undyed (haddock)

English Other Cooking / Culinary
One of the ingredients in a recipe:

smoked cod or haddock (***undyed*** is best)

I don't know how to understand "undyed" in this context. Does it refer to a way the fish is prepared? Or maybe it's a name of a particular haddock species? Or it simply describes the color?

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without addition of food coloring

food coloring is oftentimes added to give the fish a more pronounced color, see e.g.


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and can buy undyed haddock i.e. without addition of coloring and use in recipes
Peer comment(s):

agree Gillian Scheibelein : smoked haddock is often dyed a yellowish colour (so that it is immediately recognisable as smoked?)
3 mins
agree Dave Calderhead : and with Gillian ;-)
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agree Angela Dickson (X)
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agree Jack Doughty : and with Gillian.
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agree Tony M
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agree Rachel Fell
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agree Robert Fox
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agree Alison Jenner : also with Gillian
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agree Alexander Demyanov
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agree Will Matter
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agree Caryl Swift : And with Gillian :-)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you! And thank you, Rachel!"
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not coloured

http://www.woodcocksmokery.com/product/coldsmokedhaddock

The smoking dyes the haddock.

Another possibility is that the haddock is coloured by feeding it a food colouring. I know this process is used with farmed salmon.
http://newsmine.org/archive/nature-health/health/salmon-dye-...
Peer comment(s):

neutral Tony M : Can't agree with your explanation; smoking colours the haddock naturally, the dyeing is an artificial colour added to make it more pronounced. // :-))
2 hrs
Quite right. Edith's suggestion is better.
neutral Will Matter : with TD. No artificial dye added is the meaning for this one.
9 hrs
I agree Will. :-)
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