I thought all bacon is cured, so what gives? Have you ever looked through the bacon selection at the grocery store and noticed that while most of the packages are labeled "cured," there are some that ...
Nitrites, nitrates. They help in curing bacon—a preservation, flavoring, and coloring process—but can form nitrosamines, chemicals found to cause cancer in lab animals. No antibiotics ever.
curing, or adding salt or preservatives. Simply putting beef through a mincer does not mean the resulting mince is "processed" unless it is modified further. Processed meat includes bacon ...