salt-cured

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Pickled vegetables and salt-cured fish appear to be the most significant culprits in Asia.

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Quick take

(used especially of meats) preserved in salt

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adjective

(used especially of meats) preserved in salt

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Core meanings and parts of speech for salt-cured.

adjective

(used especially of meats) preserved in salt

Example sentences

Pickled vegetables and salt-cured fish appear to be the most significant culprits in Asia.

And they don't eat bacon, sausages, salami or other salt-cured pork products which are thought to promote some GI cancers due to the curing process forming nitrosamines.

I used to get it from my local farm, but their new butcher is hamstrung by regulation, and I have to settle for briney salt-cured bacon.

Salt, and salt-derived commodities (salt-cured fish, vegetables, meat) were major sources of income for societies and governments for quite a long time, so the etymology correlation probably has some legs.

The only way they trust fish, even frozen, is [if it's] salt-cured.""

Bacon is salt-cured meat and the WHO considers processed meat as "meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes".

Quote examples

The only way they trust fish, even frozen, is [if it's] salt-cured.""

Bacon is salt-cured meat and the WHO considers processed meat as "meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes".