Help. I love bacon but all the bacon I find has sugar… Where are you getting bacon?
Bacon has sugar...?!
Don_Q
(Windmill Tilter)
#2
I buy my bacon at Walmart (Upstate NY). Most bacon around here doesn’t have much sugar at all. Even eating a whole pound will leave you well under your 20g daily limit. How many carbs are in the bacon you’re seeing? Maybe it’s a regional thing?
Polly1
(Polly)
#3
Which part of the world are you in? There is sugar free bacon available in the UK 
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Rj_Marvin
(Rj Marvin)
#4
Some bacons are sugar cured, and that sugar gets smoked into the pores.
Try to find “uncured” bacon if you can. Or, if you’re feeling frisky, make your own. It’s so much better.
beccs
(Lazy, Dirty Keto 😝)
#5
I get my no sugar added bacon from wegmans. Applegate farms has a no sugar added bacon.
lfod14
#7
If you get the uncured stuff it typically has no sugar but even if you don’t most has an insignificant amount in it. I stopped paying 3x what bacon is worth because of 1-3g of carbs in it.
ajbennett
(Jack Bennett)
#8
Yeah, unless you’re doing Whole30 or something else with strict rules, it’s questionable whether those couple of carb grams matter. If they bother you (digestive problems, etc), or slow your progress, that’s a different matter.
Scobie
(Anne)
#9
I’m in Canada. On the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. I can’t find sugar free. So sad
Scobie
(Anne)
#10
So it says (on my bacon) no carbs and no sugar in the nutritional guide but ingredient t’s list sugar. For 2 slices it’s 0 carbs and 0 sugar. How many would be safe to eat for breakfast or snack?
amwassil
(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.)
#11
That means it was ‘sugar cured’, ie there was sugar in the liquid used to ‘cure’ the bacon and some of that remains in the bacon. Hence it appears in the ingredient list. The ‘0 carb’ ‘0 sugar’ per 2 slices is an estimate that less than and/or 1/2 gram of sugar is present in 2 slices. If it were greater than 1/2 gram they would have to call it 1 gram. So there’s sugar but not much.
lfod14
#12
Pretty sure Canada does the same as the US and below a certain amount of things don’t have to be listed. Usually less than .5g for carbs wouldn’t worry about it.
Scobie
(Anne)
#13
Well then I think I may chance it and have 2 slices with my eggs in the morning. YAYYY. Thanks all for the help. I am loving this life change. I feel so much healthier.
amwassil
(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.)
#14
I’d spring for 4 slices and call it a gram of carbs well spent. 
Don_Q
(Windmill Tilter)
#15
Not safe in my house, the kids eat anything not nailed down. Safer to eat the whole lb before they get it, and I still have 15 carbs left in the daily budget!
collaroygal
(KCKO, KCFO 🥥)
#19
Sounds like if it is under 1 gram of sugar, they get to list it as 0. Even two slices at 2 grams each is only 4 grams. If you are eating just bacon and eggs, then you are having a very low carb breakfast. If there are any stores up there that advertise Paleo bacon, that is usually without any sugar added. Whole Foods in the USA has it, but it is pricier than normal thick sliced bacon at our local Costco (those slices have 1 carb per slice.)
amwassil
(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.)
#20
@collaroygal In the USA and Canada, if the carbs in a ‘serving’ size are .5 gr or less they can round down to 0. More than .5 they have to round up to 1. The label says 0 carbs per 2 slices; since the list of ingredients includes sugar, that means .5 or less grams of carbs per 2 slices. Totally agree that it would be better to find bacon with no sugar (or any of its many aliases) in the list of ingredients. But we do the best we can with what we’ve got. 
David_Stilley
(Full Metal KETO AF)
#21
I don’t worry about it. I’m so low carb anyway it doesn’t matter.
