Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wooden board topped with various cured meats - Grandriver/Getty Images If you've ever found yourself standing aimlessly in front ...

Two studies have been published looking at Toxoplasma in Spanish dry-cured meat products and in meat of adult sheep. Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii. Transmission has been ...

Meat curing involves the addition of sodium chloride, often together with nitrite or nitrate, to inhibit pathogens and spoilage and to develop characteristic color and flavor; it does not necessarily ...

Have you ever looked through the bacon selection at the grocery store and noticed that while most of the packages are labeled "cured," there are some that are labeled "uncured?" This has always ...

The study comes from Queen’s University Belfast, U.K. The researchers have discovered that the nitrates used in the curing process for processed meats can release chemicals that lead to an elevated ...

Cured meat always seems like it came straight from the food factory, complete with plastic packaging. Italian cold cuts, Spanish-style chorizo (as opposed to the uncured Mexican kind), and bacon (even ...

Fairly new to the NYC culinary scene, Jamie Bissonnette has long been regarded as one of the best chefs in the Northeast (see his James Beard Foundation nominations and awards, for instance). The ...