Wall's Bacon Ingredients

[Parson Snows]

The following shows the ingredient listing for Wall's Unsmoked Back bacon



as you can see it contains both sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate.

hope that this is some use to you

kind regards

Parson Snows

[aris]

Ever since I got into this meat cureing hobby, I constantly look at the ingredients list of cold meats at the supermarket. Every product seems to vary - even in the same types of product. Some have nitrite, some have both nitrite & nitrate, and some have only nitrate. Even the types of nitrate/nitrite used (potassium or sodium) varies.

[Parson Snows]

Sorry I should have probably made the posting clearer. What I was pointing out was that

1) Nitrates (whether they be potasium or sodium) are still used in the U.K. where as in the U.S. Nitrates (of any sort) are not allowed in Bacon Production.

2) The information states that the pork content is 88 %. As the amount of Salt, E640, Sodium Ascorbate and Nitrates will account for a very small percentage of the bacon weight, you are looking at buying in the region of 10 % water.

kind regards

Parson Snows

PS aris you are correct, however they will all basically be the same OVERALL as ALL RESIDUAL calculations are calculated as Sodium Nitrite.