Hormel

Original uncured bacon

DLimit GoutMarket grade · Limit · #16 of 16 bacon we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving2 PAN FRIED SLICES (20 g)
Purine per servingabout 16 mg, at most 37 mg (9% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 183 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 37 mg per serving
Main purine sourceground pork
Fructose per serving0 g
Added sugar per servingnot on the label
Total sugar per servingnot on the label

Where the purine comes from

IngredientMatched GoutSafe foodPurine in that food, per 100 gShare of the productPurine at that share, per servingCounted in the worst case
pork ground pork (D) 183 mg up to 100% 37 mg 37 mg
seasoning (cultured celery juice powder, sea salt) celery (A) 13 mg up to 20% under 1 mg under 1 mg

Purine values come from each matched food's page on GoutSafe. Shares come from label order: US labels list ingredients by weight, so the second ingredient is at most half the product, and anything after "2% or less" is at most 2%. The worst case fills the most purine-dense ingredients to their full share first, until the shares reach the whole product, then applies GoutSafe's weighting by source, which counts plant purines at 0.3, dairy at 0 and organ meat at 1.3 because they raise uric acid by different amounts. The grade uses that worst case. How we rate.

Why it's rated D

  • Its main ingredient, ground pork, is graded D on GoutSafe, and a product never rates safer than its main ingredient. Source on GoutSafe.
  • About 16 mg of purine per serving, and at most 37 mg (9% of the 400 mg daily guide), mostly from ground pork. Source on GoutSafe.

Estimated from the ingredient label. Labels list ingredients by weight but rarely give amounts, so we grade on the most purine the label allows, which can read stricter than the real recipe and never safer. The label we read has no sugar line, so sugar is not part of this grade. How we rate.

What's on the label

Ingredients: PORK, WATER, SALT, TURBINADO SUGAR, SEASONING (CULTURED CELERY JUICE POWDER, SEA SALT).

Serving: 2 PAN FRIED SLICES (20 g). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 1858330), dated 2021-07-29. UPC 037600445955. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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