Sold as a ready-to-eat product, you might assume that all canned salmon is cooked, but is that always the case? The short answer is yes; regardless of the brand, canned salmon is completely cooked.

Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum, with decades of Alaskan marine ecology preserved in brine and tin. Parasites can tell us a lot about ...