Food · Herta
Herta Parisian Ham
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Okay nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 g
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Worse than 9 in 10 packs in Pantry. The swap is on this aisle.
Council note
Sodium nitrite is a high-concern extra. That is enough to keep this off an everyday list — and we would not pack it for a child.
Watch-outs
High-concern extra
Sodium nitrite
Extra care in pregnancy
Sodium nitrite
The pack
Parisian-style ham is pork plus a curing salt that keeps it pink. Nitrite is the concern — processed meat is the category to eat rarely, not the weekday sandwich default.
How often
Skip
Who it’s for
People who want that exact deli taste and will not make it a habit.
Skip if
You are pregnant, watching processed meat, or you thought this was a roast.
Pack
4 slices
Origin
France / Europe
A serving
If you eat it, make it the exception. Pair with vegetables, not more processed meat.
- Nitrite-cured
- Salty
- Ultra-processed meat
At a glance
How often
Skip
Nutrition box
Okay
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
4 additives
Planet
Heavier footprint · 44/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Palm oil, heavy processing, or farming choices that cost more than they give back.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Poor · 41/100 · nutrition okay
- Nutrition quality50/100
- Ingredients53/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
Okay nutrition cannot be rated Excellent
The box is middling. That is fine as a sometimes food. It is not everyday Excellent.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
A high-concern extra blocks a Good rating
A cluster of extras keeps this at Poor: a sometimes product, not a habit.
An okay nutrition box
No meaningful sugar. Salt is high. Middling — fine sometimes.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
Sodium nitrite
-28Forms nitrosamines (IARC Group 1 in processed meat). Used to cure meat.
Carrageenan
-14Degraded carrageenan is inflammatory in animal studies. Debate continues.
Monosodium glutamate
-5Flavour enhancer. Safe for most; a subset reports sensitivity.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 g
| Energy | 460 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 0.5 gLow No added sweetness to speak of. |
| Saturated fat | 1.3 gLow |
| Salt | 1.8 gHigh Salty. Easy to overshoot a day’s worth if this is a habit. |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Protein | 19 g |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Pork, salt, dextrose, flavourings, antioxidant (E301), preservative (sodium nitrite E250), fermented rice.
Sodium nitriteE250
−28Processed meats with nitrite are the ones to eat rarely — the concern is bowel cancer in that pattern, not one sandwich.
Extra care in pregnancy · Extra care for children
CarrageenanE407
−14Some people find it rough on the gut. Debate continues; we treat it as worth watching.
Monosodium glutamateE621
−5Safe for most. A few people report a reaction; most do not.
Pork
No concernA meat. The processing around it — nitrite, slurry — is the usual issue, not the animal itself.
Salt
No concernThe nutrition box already scores it. A pinch in cooking is not a packet of noodles.
Sodium ascorbateE301
No concernLow concern. Often sits next to nitrite, which is the real story.
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