Curing salt
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curing-salt-317-17144343
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Curing salt
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Curing salt is used in meat processing to generate a pinkish shade and to extend shelf life. It is both a color agent and a means to facilitate food preservation as it prevents or slows spoilage by bacteria or fungus. Curing salts are generally a mixture of sodium chloride and sodium nitrite, and are used for pickling meats as part of the process to make sausage or cured meat such as ham, bacon, pastrami, corned beef, etc. Though it has been suggested that the reason for using nitrite-containing
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Salt used in food preservation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curing_salt
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2023-11-08T16:41:54Z
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