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I'm willing to pay a premium for my processed meat products (and thus, indirectly, reduce my consumption of them). Does anyone have any experience buying nitrit
by lobotryas 9y ago
I'm willing to pay a premium for my processed meat products (and thus, indirectly, reduce my consumption of them). Does anyone have any experience buying nitrite-free bacon/salami/etc in the US? I think I can still find a butcher locally (and I mean an actual stand-alone butcher store, not the meat/deli counter at a grocer), but what do I ask them for? Just "locally made" or are there brands who eschew adding pure nitrites to their products?
- cobalt 9y agothe safeway near me (sf bay area) sells nitrile free bacon, advertised as such (maybe other meats too)
- dawnerd 9y agoAs do a lot of butchers. People just need to actually search out and not just pickup whatever prepackaged meat they see.
- BugsJustFindMe 9y ago> Does anyone have any experience buying nitrite-free bacon/salami/etc in the US? Yes. It's everywhere and costs about the same. But that may not be sufficient.
- qubex 9y agoBut as the top post indicates, in the US celery-derived chemicals earn the “nitrate-free” label but are chemically indistinguishable from the “real deal” (and thus have the same health concerns).
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- jd20 9y agoIf you live in the SF bay area, Good Eggs sells several types of uncured bacon. The one from Sonoma County Meat seems the least processed, having only salt and spices added. None of them are cheap though, around $14-16 / lb, far more than what I'd pay at Safeway for the carcinogenic bacon.