Bacon

Bacon is a pork side, which is salted with the addition of ordinary table salt, and then often smoked. This meat product is characterized by its delicate taste due to the fact that it usually uses juicy meat permeated with even layers of lard. By the way, it is precisely because of the fat layer that the calorie content of bacon is quite high and amounts to 458 kcal per hundred grams of product.

Interestingly, the way to cook bacon was invented in ancient times, and now without the aroma of this meat treat, it is difficult to imagine many traditional dishes. In different countries, bacon is used to prepare a mass of various dishes: salads, scrambled eggs, snacks, sandwiches, soups and second courses.

Despite the fact that in various recipes it is recommended to use bacon cut with thin slices, this product can be purchased in different packaging. What bacon you buy is a purely personal matter. Many prefer thin strips of bacon, some like special bacon with virtually no fat. Small pieces of bacon - pancetta - are particularly popular with Italian food lovers. The German type of bacon, called speck, is also known - usually it is cut into small pieces and added to the first courses.

If you still decide to purchase a whole large piece of bacon, remember that cutting it into small pieces will be more convenient not with a knife, but with special kitchen scissors.

As mentioned above, bacon is salty and smoked, and which one to choose is a matter of taste. Smoking, for example, adds a richer and deeper aroma to pork. If you are a supporter of bacon with a sweet taste, try the Canadian smoked product, and if a strong aroma comes first for you, choose European varieties, for example, the same Italian pancetta. However, all dependence on the variety, do not forget that the high calorie content of bacon does not allow you to abuse this rather fatty product.

If you decide to make a good boiling stock, use bacon trimmings, which you can fry with a little vegetables and fragrant roots.

Bacon composition

Obviously, in addition to pork, bacon also includes table salt. Only two of these products form a meat treat of excellent quality. However, if an unscrupulous manufacturer, in pursuit of profit, adds any other components to bacon, such as food additives, there can be no talk of a high quality meat product.

In addition, if you "drip" deeper, the chemical composition of bacon is diverse: this product is rich in various useful substances that are found in pork. B vitamins, iron, copper, magnesium, manganese are far from a complete set of natural elements that are important for human health.