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Is Iberian ham carcinogenic?
Iberian ham does not cause cancer. Eating ham often won't cause cancer, because most of ham is starch. It is best to eat some fresh meat food at ordinary times. Usually, we should also pay attention to balanced nutrition and reasonable collocation, and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.

Ham introduction

Ham, whose English name is ham, is the leg of pickled or smoked animals, such as beef leg, lamb leg, pig leg and chicken leg. It is an animal leg after curing, smoking, fermentation and drying. Generally speaking, it is a sandwich ham made of pig hind legs or chopped pork and beef, starch and food additives, also known as bacon or smoked blue. China's traditional specialty.

Ham is a pig's hind leg. Jinhua ham should be made from the hind legs of Jinhua Liangtouwu, but as Jinhua Liangtouwu is almost extinct, modern standard ham should be made from ordinary salted legs.

Ham is made of livestock and poultry meat as the main raw material, supplemented by fillers such as starch and plant protein powder, as well as seasonings such as salt, sugar, wine, monosodium glutamate and spices, quality modifiers such as carrageenan and vitamin C, and color fixative, water-retaining agent and preservative. Ham sausage is a kind of meat food which is deeply loved by people. It is delicate in taste, fresh and refreshing, convenient to carry and eat, and has a long shelf life.