Can my local grocery store bacon really be compliant?

[berrybird]

I've heard repeatedly on these forums and other places where W30 is discussed that finding compliant bacon is really hard and can't be done at a "regular" grocery store. However, my local grocery store's bacon seems to be compliant. The ingredients seem to simply be pork and salt, and salt-based preservatives. Am I missing something? Ingredients as they appear on the packaging below. This is Hannaford's (a small New England grocery store chain) store brand low-sodium bacon.

 

Ingredients:  PORK, CURED WITH: WATER, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE.

[ShannonM816]

If that's really all the ingredients it contains, it's compliant. Be sure you read the package carefully, occasionally products have a sneaky line of "contains less than 2% of) that's in smaller print, not as noticeable as the ingredients. But if there's nothing like that, it's good.

[berrybird]

Yeah, my husband (who is not doing W30 with me, but generally eating compliantly to be supportive) and I both scoured the packaging, not believing it. That's really it.

Yay for cheap compliant bacon. (It's also pretty darn tasty. Not as complex/smoky as some bacon, but a nice variety over endless chicken sausage for weekend breakfasts and putting some fat in a salad with bacon crumbles.)

[CarolinaJ85]

I just started my second Whole 30, but did my first in early 2013. It is SO much easier to find compliant items this time around since Whole30/Paleo has really gone mainstream. I used to have to go to a specialty shop for compliant bacon, sausage, coconut aminos, fish sauce, coconut milk, etc. and now I can find all of it in my conventional grocery store  

[ladyshanny]

I find compliant bacon at my local butcher.  So...not the grocery store but not too hard to find and not "whole foods" priced.  

[berrybird]

I just wanted to come back and post that I'd found another thread about one of the ingredients in the bacon I described above, and it includes a moderator suggesting that sodium erythorbate should not be consumed. The link is here:

 

http://forum.whole9life.com/topic/27477-sodium-erythorbate/

 

Now, I'm personally not of the opinion that the linked documentation in that thread suggesting that sodium erythorbate is potentially dangerous is at all persuasive, and I will continue to eat the bacon, but I wanted to point out the existing link that I hadn't previously seen to anyone reading who was curious.

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Costco brand (Kirkland) is also compliant then!  Oh joy.

[praxisproject]

I just wanted to come back and post that I'd found another thread about one of the ingredients in the bacon I described above, and it includes a moderator suggesting that sodium erythorbate should not be consumed. The link is here:

 

http://forum.whole9life.com/topic/27477-sodium-erythorbate/

 

Now, I'm personally not of the opinion that the linked documentation in that thread suggesting that sodium erythorbate is potentially dangerous is at all persuasive, and I will continue to eat the bacon, but I wanted to point out the existing link that I hadn't previously seen to anyone reading who was curious.

 

The linked post does say it is compliant, but that this ingredient is one some people are sensitive to.