Sunday, January 27, 2019

Uncured meats

'cured meat' art by Christine


I recently heard of uncured pepperoni pizzas.  It made me curious to know the difference between cured and uncured meats.  This link explains it well.  Uncured meats use naturally occurring agents such as celery powder which naturally transforms into nitrites. If nitrites are not added, meat is considered uncured.  Uncured meat has a paler colour.  People with allergies to nitrites may want to try uncured meats.  The meat must be preserved in some way to avoid spoiling.  The debate is whether it is any healthier. 

Have you tried uncured meats, I haven't yet.

18 comments:

DeniseinVA said...

Fun image and you've explained about the meats very well. Thanks Christine.

Pink Rose said...

Hi Christine very interesting information my friend as I didn't know the difference,now I do,Thankyou xx

Valerie-Jael said...

Love your painting. Thanks for the explanations. Hugs, Valerie

Victor S E Moubarak said...

Uncured ... because it has not been ill.

God bless.

Gloria Baker said...

love this painting Christine, and really interesting!

Anonymous said...

That is really interesting. And the artwork is lovely!

dkzody said...

We eat very little meat, but occasionally I will buy uncured bacon or uncured salami for a certain dish I want to make. We always eat uncured meats.

gigihawaii said...

My father died of colon cancer, which is caused by eating cured meat such as hot dogs, sausage, ham, etc. Stay away from nitrates.

froebelsternchen said...

Cured or uncured - no meat for me ...lol.
A fabulous painting though!

Hugs, Susi

Lowcarb team member said...

I do like your artwork.
Thanks for the link and information.

All the best Jan

Adam said...

They probably about the same health wise.

The Happy Whisk said...

Back in the day, we only had uncured here. It also has a more real taste and cleaner flavour. We found, anyway. But I guess that depends on the brand and quality, too.

KB said...

Interesting. I can't keep up with what's supposed to be healthy or not these days.

sandy said...

what a cool sketch - and I haven't read anything about uncured meats - interesting though.

Kay said...

Thank you for this information. I did not know what it meant.

Sudipto Sarkar said...

Interesting... And a nice sketch. :)

Jennifer Rose said...

I'm not actually sure if I have or not, I might have but can't remember lol

baili said...

very appealing art here !

i was totally unfamiliar to this form of meat thank you for sharing information and link