Is Heart-Healthy Bacon an impossible oxymoron?

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It's a cure mix with maple flavoring . Morton's used to make one . A lot of the Owens seasoning use it in one form or another .
If you're adjusting salt for health reasons , you can do your own by percentage of the weight .
Salt , sugar , and cure 1 . You could add maple extract or syrup if you want the maple flavor .
Yes, I’m on <2000 mg/day … that’s pretty hard to do if you don’t make most everything yourself. But I may give myself a hall pass once a month.
It comes as a kit . The seasoning and the cure . The cure is salt , sugar . maple sugar and cure 1 .
Used at a rate of 1 3/4 tsp per pound , for that kit . I never cross them over , I keep it with the kit it came with . Any leftover gets tossed .
This is from a Summer sausage kit , but same stuff .
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Ok, I see that now …
 
Just to back up what chopsaw chopsaw said. I have used the ground formed bacon with venison from Owens bbq and it's very good.
 
Thanks for the shout out Brokenhandle Brokenhandle and SmokinEdge SmokinEdge
I never go over 1% and usually run about 1/2% salt in my sausage or cures.
I was a bit leery about very low salt until I read a comment by Rytek Kutas where he stated the salt alone (roughly 1/4%) in cure #1 is enough to safely cure meat along with the sodium nitrite.
Also make sure your cure #1 is fresh. I got messed up by expired cure a couple of years ago.

Yes, I’m on <2000 mg/day … that’s pretty hard to do if you don’t make most everything yourself. But I may give myself a hall pass once a month.
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If you're on a sodium restricted diet also remember to reduce or remove your added sugars as well. Processed sugars are highly inflammatory.

I dry cure bacon at 1/2% total salt which means cure #1 (1/4%) and 1/4% salt and NO sugar.
Cold smoking is good, but oddly I prefer hot smoking. My taste I guess.

Do not wet cure low salt meat. The brine gets the slime very quickly.
 
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I think a brine is more accurate than a dry rub, the salt and cure is added in and no washing the unused salt rub off after set time,
 
Anyone on sodium restriction needs to bump their water intake, research the sodium potassium pump, and start using potassium chloride (KCl) into their food. Yes KCl can be used to make bacon. Not straight but in conjunction with salt (NaCl) Sorry, no recipe or anything.
 
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I think a brine is more accurate than a dry rub, the salt and cure is added in and no washing the unused salt rub off after set time,
Probably, but I haven't had any problem with internal grey areas with dry rub
But as I mentioned earlier, a low salt wet brine gets slimy before the cure cycle is complete.
 
I think a brine is more accurate than a dry rub, the salt and cure is added in and no washing the unused salt rub off after set time,
Not true.
A piece of meat in a brine will pick or uptake various amount of sodium and cure from the brine. It’s not very predictable. You may like the results, but without laboratory tests it’s a crap shoot at the final uptake of nitrite and sodium.

With a dry rub, the salt and nitrite we apply directly reacts with the meat and 100% is infused into the meat. So the meat always ends up exactly as we applied cure, and is always 100% repeatable when applied to meat weight specifically.
 
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Anyone on sodium restriction needs to bump their water intake, research the sodium potassium pump, and start using potassium chloride (KCl) into their food. Yes KCl can be used to make bacon. Not straight but in conjunction with salt (NaCl) Sorry, no recipe or anything.
I never hear the potassium link.
 
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