PaleoJAX Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Alot of smoked salmon/lox brands have added sugar. Any Whole30 brand suggestions local to NorCal??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limejuicy Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I was wondering the same thing, though I'm in Utah. I loooove smoked salmon, but when I went to buy some for my W30 the other day, every single one of them had sugar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derval Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 That's mad, I've never seen sugar in any brands over here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrustdc Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Most of the brands at my Whole Foods don't have sugar, but at the conventional grocery store I had to look farther. Trader Joe's doesn't have sugar, IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limejuicy Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Thanks jrustdc. I haven't looked at WF, that was next on my list. Glad to hear they have some. Sadly UT doesn't have TJ's yet, but they will be here by the end of the year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maycat Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 I am bumping this thread in hopes of someone in Northern California sharing where they get smoked salmon without sugar. I have been to almost every store in my town with no luck. Every single package of smoked salmon I inspect has sugar in it and some punk kid at the butcher told me smoked salmon MUST have sugar in it or it won't cure. I am 100 miles from the nearest whole foods, but am willing to order some online if necessary. Where do you get your smoked salmon from? I am in Chico, the heart of Paleo country, surely there must be some smoked salmon without sugar somewhere around here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praxisproject Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 You might want to look for European places (if there are any), they're less likely to have sugar. Maybe search for salt cured? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drybean Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Maycat-Do you have Trader Joes? They have a variety that has no added sugar. It's the Wild Coho variety. Ingredients are: Coho Salmon, Salt, Natural Hardwood Smoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
errybarnes07 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I wish this helped me find smoked salmon in australia :-p havent tried ver hard yet looknig but god I hope it's an easy find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LydiaL Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 For people in Canada: Nanuk brand doesn't have added sugar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizerdmama Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 If you're in Chico, there is a Trader Joes, not sure about their Smoked Salmon selection. Also there's S & S, did you try there? (I lived in Chico back in 2006). Hope you find some Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joimagg Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 In Norway: Fiskemannen 'Røkt Laks' and 'Røkt Ørret' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigi In NOLA Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 I found this on Amazon. Otherwise, I've gotten it at Whole Foods. Alaska Smokehouse Smoked Sockeye Fillet in Gift Box, 16-Ounce Ingredients: Salmon, salt, spices, natural alder smoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amykim Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Spence & Co., LTD has no sugar or artificial additive . Ingredients: Atlantic salmon, Kosher salt, and oakwood smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genova84 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Urgh. I bought a 12oz package of smoked salmon from whole foods and the damned thing has sugar in it. 0 grams mind you, but I'm only on day 1. Now I am going to have to keep it in my fridge without eating it for the whole month. It is good for 6 week apparently ... Seriously, what is wrong with food manufacturers that they feel the need to put sugar in everything!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goody2shz Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Food manufacturers don't add extra sugar, it's the residual sugar from the curing process. I've made smoked salmon without sugar. It's not as good as with sugar, but it can be done. And it's really easy to make. Look online for a recipe. I use Wright's liquid smoke which has no additives. Since you won't be using sugar, I suggest curing for a shorter time followed by a very thorough rinsing. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laura_juggles Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 1 hour ago, Goody2shz said: Food manufacturers don't add extra sugar, it's the residual sugar from the curing process. I've made smoked salmon without sugar. It's not as good as with sugar, but it can be done. And it's really easy to make. Look online for a recipe. I use Wright's liquid smoke which has no additives. Since you won't be using sugar, I suggest curing for a shorter time followed by a very thorough rinsing. Good luck! When you look at a package of smoked salmon and it says "salmon, salt, sugar, spices", then the sugar is definitely added. Anything "residual" would still be there and still not ok for Whole30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goody2shz Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 I'm not disputing the fact that any food that lists sugar is not Whole30 compliant, and I don't know how you got that from my post. To clarify, manufacturers use sugar and salt and perhaps some spices and smoke flavoring to make smoked salmon, then rinse it off after a specified time. I'm sure the salmon does absorb some of the sugar. Hence the ingredients list shows sugar, as it should. The important point I'm trying to make is it's possible and very easy to make your own smoked salmon to completely avoid the sugar. I was also distinguishing the fact that the sugar listed was most likely used to cure the fish as opposed to being added after the curing process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laura_juggles Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 @Goody2shz How I got that was "Food manufacturers don't add extra sugar". Any sugar added to salmon, rinsed off or not, is extra sugar. Your post read (to me) like you were trying to say all the sugar used in the cure is used up or somehow goes away before it becomes the finished product, like how it's fermented in kombucha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goody2shz Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 That's not what I was trying to say, and I'm glad you see that now. If it was, I wouldn't have gone on to discuss how to make your own sugarless smoked salmon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariboux Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 I live in Alaska with a ready source of wild salmon. We love our home-smoked fish and pressure-can fresh and smoked. The problem is, I know of no good brines (fish needs to be cured in a sugar/salt brine prior to smoking, like bacon) without sugar. The smoked salmon that most perple are used to is sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators SugarcubeOD Posted April 4, 2017 Moderators Share Posted April 4, 2017 Google gets me this: http://www.fishwire.net/sugar-free-smoked-salmon-recipe/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Ducktrap River in Maine has smoked fish without sugar -- but which ones escape me at the moment. Their Kendall Brook Salmon comes to mind but I don't have any around at the moment. Will try to snap a photo when I'm at the store next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ15 Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Does anyone know if the Portico brand smoked salmon from SYSCO has sugar in it? (I’m trying to find the ingredients list online and not having success) TIA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators SugarcubeOD Posted February 24, 2018 Moderators Share Posted February 24, 2018 4 hours ago, PJ15 said: Does anyone know if the Portico brand smoked salmon from SYSCO has sugar in it? (I’m trying to find the ingredients list online and not having success) TIA! Have you tried to contact Sysco? Given their ingredients aren't online, one risk of someone telling you it's fine (or not fine) on the internet is that the item that person can get in their own region/retail location is different formulation than what you can get in your region/retail location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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