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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Economics, Trade, Law, Business, Industry > products and commodities > agricultural products > foods > cured foods

Human Nutrition, Food Safety and Quality > foods > cured foods

Preferred Term:

cured foods

Definition:

Food that has been treated with salt or nitrate or nitrite to preserve it. A very old method of food preservation.

Concept Schemes:

NALT Full

Broader Concept:

Narrower Concepts:

cured meats

URI:

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/30822

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