Peperami...

According to this mob it's true, true I tellz ya.

Peperami Original Meat Stick Snack
F Grade 126 Calories

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 serving (25 g)
Per Serving % Daily Value*
Calories 126
Calories from Fat 99
Total Fat 11g 17%
Saturated Fat 4.5g 23%
Sodium 400mg 17%
Carbohydrates 0.6g 0%
Protein 6.1g

* Based on a 2000 calorie diet

https://www.caloriecount.com/calories-unilever-peperami-original-i318279

 

In Canada it's pepperoni but I believe its the same thing. I buy it all the time, 1 gram carb per large stick.

 

2.2g per 100g but still not bad at all.. pork scratchings are more a dream come true.. the ones I get are 0.6g per 100g.

 

Ingredients:
Pork (151%), Iodised Salt, Dextrose, Spices, Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate), Preservative (Sodium Nitrite), Beechwood Smoke, Made with 37.7g Pork per 25g finished product, as some moisture is lost during curing and drying
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=254273379

 

Peperami is not exactly pepperoni. It is a brand name in UK and Europe for a pork salami/pepperoni-style snack - essentially a meat stick.

 

Other small salamis are available and probably taste better but Peperami have a very useful feature in that they are individually packed and don't need refrigeration, so I often take them on trips as a low carb snack.

 

I like the spicy Pepperami. I haven't bought any for a while. I'll look out for when they are 'on offer'.

 

Personally I also look for versions of "processed" or cured meats that have as few ingredients/chemicals as possible. Products vary greatly. I love cured meats, but I do truly believe that as low carb as many of them are, the processing/curing does make their health impact a little concerning. I try to keep them to "snack" duty and as a treat as opposed to a regular item.

 

Despite the scary sounding chemicals, there is nothing there that would bother me. Both Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate are produced from animal or fish sources; MSG we know about and Sodium Nitrate is a preservative as old as the hills.

 

Coincidentally, just saw this today.

 

I believe from my schooldays chemistry lessons that Nitrates are key components in fertilizers and explosives, and it is nitrites and nitriles that are used to preserve processed meats and fish. I think drinking paraquat which is a nitrate fertilizer has somewhat of an end-of-life effect.

However nitrates also find use in quaaludes, that well known hippie pick-me-up/ aphrodisiac and heart medicine.

 

I remember Paraquat, the 'housewives favourite'.