On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, tom roberts wrote:

> All the bacon that I have
> ever seen has been sugar cured in one form or another. (Maybe there is a
> type that isn't, but I have never found it). And we all seem to agree
> that sugar is very non-paleo.

Ha!  I don't agree.  Common table sugar is sucrose, which is
found in many fruits.  While I would agree that sugar consumption
on the scale that we have it in the USA and many other developed
countries is a threat to health, I don't agree that sugar itself
is non-paleo.  If you eat a single orange you'll consume more
sucrose than you will from a large serving of bacon.  Some are
cured with dextrose instead of sucrose, but the same remarks
apply to dextrose.

This is not a general defense of bacon, since most (but not all)
bacon is preserved with nitrites, which are to my knowledge not
paleo.

Todd Moody
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