Helen Browning's Organic Smoked Back Bacon without Nitrates

All our bacon & lardons are now made without using nitrites or nitrates.
We've worked hard over the past few years to find a way of curing our bacon to keep it food safe whilst also avoiding using nitrates or nitrite salts, traditionally used to make bacon.
This is the result. Great tasting bacon cured with salt and flavoured with organic fruits and vegetable extracts; lemons and the fruit of the Mediterranean carob tree. Sliced thinly to allow it to crisp up perfectly.


Our bacon is made from free range, outdoor bred pigs raised to the highest welfare standards - going above and beyond the usual organic standards. We do not routinely use any antibiotics and NEVER use critically endangered ones. The pigs are fed on a GM free diet and their food is supplemented with fresh waste fruit and vegetables from Abel and Cole adding colour and variety to their day. All our pigs are free to roam and root as pigs love to do. They live in warm pig arks with plenty of straw bedding and we even dig wallows for them to cool off in when the weather gets hot.


We use UK organic pork where ever we can. However the demand for streaky bacon in the UK is currently outstripping the supply of organic pork bellies to make it. We therefore top up our supply with organic pork bellies from the EU. These are certified to the Soil Association EU regulations. Once the UK supply chain catches up we will revert to UK only. Until this time we are UK first, topped up to keep supply going with product from the EU. This also helps give UK farmers the confidence to invest in more production.


If you like our smoked back bacon, make sure you try our smoked streaky bacon too or our sausages or pulled pork.

UK

Keep refrigerated below 5oC. Once opened use within 3 days and by the date shown on front of pack. Suitable for home freezing. Freeze on day of purchase and use within 3 months. Fully defrost before using and use on same day.

Grill or fry turning for 4 to 6 minutes, turning occasionally. Ensure bacon is piping hot before serving. For the perfect bacon sandwich, serve between bread, lashings of butter and tomato ketchup.
Our top tip: For the best, crispy bacon, remove your bacon from the fridge 30 minutes before you want to make your sandwich to bring the bacon up to room temperature.

Plastic PVDC tray with film & paper label

Widely recyclable

Packed in a protective atmosphere.
-Our bacon is certified by the Soil Association meaning our produce is produced to the highest of organic standards.
- Our pigs are free range and outdoor bred in plenty of space with the opportunity to express their natural behaviours - Free range all their lives, slow growing and resulting in wonderful tasting meat!
- We recommend eat less but better (organic) meat and these cured products are a wonderful treat to have from time to time rather than a daily staple.

Organic British pork (95%), *water, *salt, natural flavouring (organic lemon, organic carob), antioxidant: ascorbic acid. *Permitted non organic ingredients

Gluten free certified

Organic, No GM ingredients, Gluten Free

Helen Browning

Houghton Hams, Tenter Road, Northampton, NN3 6AX

UK

Eastbrook Farm Offices, Cues Lane, SN6 8PL