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8 Grocery Smoked Salmon Brands Ranked From Worst To Best By Shelby Bock Nov. 8, 2025 9:19 am EST

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Smoked salmon is just one of the delicious ways that salmon is prepared around the world. The art of smoking salmon was developed by indigenous people in what is now Alaska who used brining and smoke to preserve fish and imbue flavor.

Though the two types of preparation are often used interchangeably, there's actually a big difference between them, resulting in lox or smoked salmon. The brining process that produces lox doesn't involve smoke at all — the salmon is instead cured in salt. Over the years, the smoking method has traveled around the world, with new traditions emerging in various regions. In America, lox is generally harder to

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