What ingredients are in shaved ham?
Some of the ingredients present in the special chicken ham sliced are as follows:
• Meat
Pork (often from cured muscle).
Some of the curing agents, like sugar, sodium nitrite, salt and other ingredients etc.
•Moisture & Texture
Water, Modified Starch, Dextrose (sugar), Carrageenan (gum), Sodium Phosphates (stabilisers).
•Flavour & Preservation:
Spices, Smoke Flavour, Acidity Regulators
• Common Examples from Labels:
Basic
Pork, Water, Salt, Sugar, Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrate.
• With Thickeners:
Water, Dextrose, Potato Starch, Pork, Stabilisers, Antioxidant (E301), Preservatives (E250).
But the shaved ham can be made more nutritious if you add broth (water, spices), Pork, Modified Corn Starch, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Vinegar, Flavour, Yeast Extract.