Maple-Flavored Fully Cooked Real Bacon Pieces, Maple
The processing score reflects 20 ingredients, including preservatives and natural flavoring. The nutrition score reflects high sodium, saturated fat and total fat.
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Ingredients
12 listed · 6 flagged for reviewPORK, WATER, MAPLE SEASONING (BROWN SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, MAPLE SYRUP, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: NATURAL FLAVORS, MOLASSES, SUGAR, PARTIALLY INVERTED SUGAR, CARAMEL COLOR), SALT, SUGAR, SMOKE FLAVORING, DEXTROSE, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, FLAVORING, SODIUM NITRITE.
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Why Does This Score Highly Processed?
In our analysis, Maple-Flavored Fully Cooked Real Bacon Pieces, Maple scores Highly Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:
- Chemical Preservatives (Sodium Nitrite): Synthetic preservatives are UPF indicators.
- Natural Flavors (Smoke Flavoring, Flavoring): Despite being natural, these are highly processed extracts.
- Other Additives (Sodium Phosphates, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Ascorbate): Miscellaneous additives generally indicate processing.
Within Dressings & Mayo, this product is more processed than about 23% of the 5,534 products we've analyzed.
Processing classification reflects ingredient and additive analysis, not a judgment of any product's safety, quality, or healthfulness.
What These Ingredients Tell Us
We group Maple-Flavored Fully Cooked Real Bacon Pieces, Maple's ingredients into ingredient categories and note how each relates to food processing. The notes below describe the category, not this specific product's formulation.
- Salt & SodiumProcessing indicator
In this product: Salt.
Basic preservative, but high amounts indicate processing.
- Sugars & Natural SweetenersProcessing indicator
In this product: Sugar, Dextrose.
Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.
This product is part of our wider analysis. It features in our Bacon vs Sausage comparison.
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