Eye On Europe: Scots find a way to produce bacon with less salt

An innovative project has found that leaving the skin on bacon sides during wet-curing cuts salt content by 25 per cent – and reduces fat, too

by NORMAN DUNN

Bacon with 25 per cent less salt than the average product – and 20 per cent less fat, too – has been developed by a “food innovation team” from Abertay University in Scotland with backing from government, the meat processing sector and the farming industry.

Better Pork - June 2010