13 US Bacon Brands to Skip And 7 That Are ACTUALLY Real Pork

These are the bacon brands to avoid — one is tied to ten deaths and a fifty-state recall. We investigated twenty bacon brands to see which ones cure real pork and which just inject brine. Federal law caps how much brine a "Bacon" label can carry, but processors still pump in water and sodium phosphate before smoking it back under the line. One brand faced a metal-contamination recall, and several were named in a two-hundred-million-dollar pork price-fixing lawsuit. We name 20 brands, including Oscar Mayer, Smithfield, and Boar's Head. Seven brands still cure it the old way — dry rubbed, no added water. We examine the ingredients, the labels, and the marketing claims so you don't have to. #Bacon #FoodInvestigation #ConsumerAlert #GroceryShopping #FoodFraud Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:23 Avoid #13: Legal Brine Loophole 1:36 Avoid #12: Unnamed Contract Bacon 3:06 Avoid #11: Hidden Sugar Cure 4:12 Avoid #10: Anonymous Processor Bacon 5:23 Avoid #9: Sausage Brand Bacon 6:27 Avoid #8: Undisclosed Growth Drug 7:40 Avoid #7: Overpriced Regional Logo 8:50 Avoid #6: Licensed Name Only 9:53 Avoid #5: Metal Contamination Recall 11:09 Avoid #4: Hidden Parent Company 13:05 Avoid #3: Mechanically Separated Paste 14:12 Avoid #2: Deadly Plant Violations 15:25 Avoid #1: Foreign-Owned Price Fixing 17:13 Uncured Bacon Myth Explained 18:13 Real #7: Clean Budget Pick 19:23 Real #6: Real Smoke Compromise 20:38 Real #5: Zero Nitrite Formula 21:53 Real #4: 24-Hour Applewood Smoke 22:52 Real #3: Heritage Breed Standard 24:10 Real #2: Old-School Dry Cure 25:17 Real #1: 12-Day Hand Cure 26:43 Bacon Pan Test 27:46 Final Verdict Related Keywords: bacon brands to avoid how to make bacon bacon brands oscar mayer bacon cooking bacon how to cook bacon bacon pork belly grocery store bacon oscar mayer uncured bacon best bacon for breakfast avoid these foods processed meat brands best bacon grocery shopping tips processed meat smithfield bacon boar's head bacon hormel bacon butterball turkey bacon sodium nitrite bacon listeria recall bacon pork price fixing lawsuit niman ranch bacon Trust the label less. Trust the evidence more. 🔔 Subscribe to Today's Foods Investigated:    / @todaysfoodsinvestigated