Best Bacon by PureScore

Bacon is pork, water, and salt on the shorter labels, and a cured sliced meat on the longer ones. This ranking uses the published PureScore already on each product page. The live composite is ingredient safety (40%), formulation quality (30%), contaminant risk (20%), and label transparency (10%). Labels that are only partly matched stay off the list.

Ranked bacon

Rank	Product	Brand	PureScore	Label begins	Buy
1	Apple Wood Smoked Uncured Center Cut Bacon	Hempler Foods Group Llc	91	NATURAL * PORK, WATER, SEA SALT, ORGANIC HONEY, CELERY POWDER	Buy
2	Hickory smoked uncured bacon	Applegate Organics	91	Organic pork**, water, sea salt. contains less than 2% of the following: celery powder	Buy
3	Cured Bacon	Applegate	89	PORK, WATER, SEA SALT, CULTURED CELERY POWDER	Buy
4	Applewood smoked uncured bacon	Niman Ranch	89	Pork, water, salt, celery powder	Buy
5	Fully cooked canadian bacon	Land O' Frost Inc.	63	Pork sirloin hips, water, salt. less than 2% of sugar, corn syrup solids, sodium phosphates	Buy

Hempler Foods Group Llc Apple Wood Smoked Uncured Center Cut Bacon at 91 is Excellent. Its label begins: NATURAL * PORK, WATER, SEA SALT, ORGANIC HONEY, CELERY POWDER. Land O' Frost Inc. Fully cooked canadian bacon at 63 is Good. Its label begins: Pork sirloin hips, water, salt. less than 2% of sugar, corn syrup solids, sodium phosphates.

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