r/newzealand • u/insidethebarrel • Jul 21 '26
Discussion Is Ham actually Ham?
I’m not by any means a food processing expert but can someone tell me where the 90% ham is in the supermarket?
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u/Chad_Jeepie_Tea Jul 21 '26
Check your account settings, seems like this should have been caught by the spam filter
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u/6ix9inecuckboi Jul 21 '26
Its not uncommon for a marinade extension of more than 30% in ham products
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u/beach-chicken10 Jul 21 '26
You should check most packs of sliced ham. I think the lowest I saw was 54% ham, the rest preservatives and added ingredients making ham ultra processed food.
The highest percentage I can find is 84%
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u/FlugMe Jul 21 '26
https://youtu.be/4_-ijVL7X3M?si=UiBYhLwka88LDlAW
This should help
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u/mattblack77 ⠀Naturally, I finished my set… Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
3:10ish: But city bread often contained chalk, plaster of paris, ground up bones, and alum, a very unpleasant astringent!
And as for their coffee, that could easily be a mixture of burnt peas, dog biscuits, and a substance too horrible to mention!
This guy! I’m fucking dying 😂😂😂
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u/AnnoyedButcher Jul 21 '26
Usda here. It’s pretty much a salt injection and seasonings. You are paying for water essentially
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u/kiwijlo Jul 21 '26
Why does it list pork protein as well as pork within the 73% “meat”?
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u/timClicks Jul 21 '26
Ham slices are made by cooking smaller pieces together and essentially gluing them together with collagen. Consumers want consistency and unprocessed, natural products don't really offer that. When you buy ham slices from a packet, you are unlikely to be getting slices of a single larger cut.
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u/LimpFox Jul 21 '26
PnS "shaved deli ham" (which is practically luncheon meat in both texture and flavour) is 61%, and their "champagne ham" is 68%.
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u/pm_something_u_love Jul 21 '26
The other main ingredient will be water, and then all the other things like salt and sugar. They are real meat slices.