Cured with water, brown sugar and 2% or less: sugar, salt, corn syrup, molasses, potassium and sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, sodium propionate.
Food health
Nutrition profile and additives of concern
⚠Contains additive of concern
Sodium nitriteForms carcinogenic nitrosamines in cured/processed meat; processed meat classified IARC Group 1.
Sodium propionatePropionate preservatives have been associated in limited studies with behavioural/irritability effects in children and with migraine in sensitive individuals; evidence is weak.
Per-ingredient concern · chemical identity, not food safety
