Saw Oscar Mayer Selects bacon in the store today with these ingredients:
Pork, Water, Sea Salt, Evaporated Cane Syrup, Cultured Celery Juice.
no nitrates or preservatives added.
Does this look ok? What about regular store bought bacon with nitrates?
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Saw Oscar Mayer Selects bacon in the store today with these ingredients:
Pork, Water, Sea Salt, Evaporated Cane Syrup, Cultured Celery Juice.
no nitrates or preservatives added.
Does this look ok? What about regular store bought bacon with nitrates?
[QUOTE=thepeanutbutterkid;856937]Saw Oscar Mayer Selects bacon in the store today with these ingredients:
Pork, Water, Sea Salt, Evaporated Cane Syrup, Cultured Celery Juice.
no nitrates or preservatives added.
Does this look ok? What about regular store bought bacon with nitrates?[/QUOTE]
Oscar Mayer = CAFO, I would be inclined to avoid it.
I buy bacon from the store, but I only buy it if the ingredients are "pork, water, salt." These brands do exist, you just have to read some labels and you'll find something - if not at your regular store, then at some other chain.
Celery juice is the same thing as sodium nitrite, just a "natural" version of it, whatever the hell that means. Oscar Meyer already got an earful from me after I ate their "No nitrites or nitrates added!" hot dogs a couple of years ago and got my usual hot dog/bacon 3-day migraine.
If you don't have a problem with sodium nitrite, I can't see it being too terrible, but I wouldn't eat a lot of it.
[QUOTE=Lapin;857094]Oscar Mayer = CAFO, I would be inclined to avoid it.[/QUOTE]
CAFO means what?
I would treat any bacon as an occasional (1-2x/month) treat and not a staple of your diet.
[QUOTE=Artbuc;857158]CAFO means what?[/QUOTE]
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation. It's how most livestock is raised in the US. Basically cram the animals in a small space and feed them grains to make them put on weight as fast as possible. Personally, I still eat mostly conventional CAFO meat. I hope to change that soon by buying half a cow from a local grassfed farm. Just getting my order finalized, so it should be soon. I think the moral/sustainability issues are more pressing than the nutritional ones. Some conventional bacon every now and then probably won't hurt you.
Save your money and buy real meat, fruit, or vegetables. CAFO bacon is not good for you. Even "real" bacon from pasture-raised animals should be treated as more of a condiment and not a meal in and of itself.