best cold cuts

[androstallone-6-cpt]

I was wondering how cold cuts stack up in a bodybuilding diet. Is there one brand or brands to look for or should they be avoided all together in a BB diet (in my case a perpetual lifetime lean bulk). Currently doing turkey, salami, and provalone on whole wheat everyday.

 

[BigChef]

Processing & preservatives / sodium. They are not the best choice.
One of the questions I'm most asked about has to do with "nitrates" or "nitrites" that are listed in the ingredients on some cold cut packages.
Sodium Nitrite helps prevent the growth of Clostridium botulinum, which can cause botulism in humans and is also used alone or in conjunction with sodium nitrate as a color fixative in cured meat and poultry products (bologna, hot dogs, bacon). During the cooking process, nitrites combine with amines naturally present in meat to form carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds. It is also suspected that nitrites can combine with amines in the human stomach to form N-nitroso compounds. These compounds are known carcinogens and have been associated with cancer of the oral cavity, urinary bladder, esophagus, stomach and brain.

What I would do is buy a Meat Slicer or cut it yourself if you are skillful with a Chef knife and cook your own meat.

 

[jeff1985]

Bump above post salami is garbage greasy shit meat that I wont feed my dog And I hate him. Chicken round eye steak lean hamburger and lean Turkey Burger is my favorite. I agree buy the meat and cook it yourself much less sodium that way

 

[aussiebulldog]

what about some home made beef jerky?

 

[jeff1985]

That salty shit is not for me I know that

 

[geo1958]

Buy the type of meat you like (beef, chicken, pork) and roast it yourself. I suppose if that's absolutely impossible for you, you could get the roast beef, pork or chicken that's sold at the deli counter, but that's it. Anything ground up and stuffed into a casing or pickled (like corned beef) from the deli, I'd avoid.

 

[wasp]

boars head roast beef............thats it ...............i no longer eat, pork of any kind, sausage, hot dogs, etc etc......................

and the deli i go to has their own rb which is most of the time rarer than the boars head, and id bet has less crap in it, wheat bread, small amount of mayo........water.....................nice

 

[nickman1978]

that sucks cause i love my cold cuts ...

 

[abbot138]

that sucks cause i love my cold cuts ...

Some stores make a store cooked or no salt turkey....Thats probably the only option here.

 

[Tom]

there may be a few exceptions but generally there is no way cold cuts should be part of anyone's diet.

 

[RESTLESS1]

the only cold cuts i eat are 98% fat free turkey......low sodium....

 

[thebrick]

Processing & preservatives / sodium. They are not the best choice.
One of the questions I'm most asked about has to do with "nitrates" or "nitrites" that are listed in the ingredients on some cold cut packages.
Sodium Nitrite helps prevent the growth of Clostridium botulinum, which can cause botulism in humans and is also used alone or in conjunction with sodium nitrate as a color fixative in cured meat and poultry products (bologna, hot dogs, bacon). During the cooking process, nitrites combine with amines naturally present in meat to form carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds. It is also suspected that nitrites can combine with amines in the human stomach to form N-nitroso compounds. These compounds are known carcinogens and have been associated with cancer of the oral cavity, urinary bladder, esophagus, stomach and brain.

What I would do is buy a Meat Slicer or cut it yourself if you are skillful with a Chef knife and cook your own meat.

But I have a theory about nitrates and nitrites. And at my age I have been thinking about this more. If they preserve processed meat, if I consume enough of that, shouldn't they help preserve me as well?

 

[packing_it_on]

Stay away from the cold cuts brother!

It's so easy to let a few chicken breasts and pork chops roast in the oven, and then just store them in a container in the refrigerator for eating at your convenience.

Btw, don't mean to jack your thread bro, but I have to shout out thanks to whoever it was that made the thread on digestive enzymes. I think you saved my marriage. Protein farts are nasty!

 

[cachexic]

Try the new Boar's Head Everroast chicken. Shit is fantastic. Low sodium too. It's the only cold cut I can eat slices of by itself without being grossed out.

I don't see why that can't be part of a bodybuilder's diet. Good low fat protein source. We have some serious food purists here.

 

[geo1958]

And then there was another 'study', for what it's worth, that made the rounds recently - it ain't plain old beef, pork, & lamb that raises the risk of heart disease, it's processed meats:

Study suggests processed meat a real health risk

 

[Ashop]

I was wondering how cold cuts stack up in a bodybuilding diet. Is there one brand or brands to look for or should they be avoided all together in a BB diet (in my case a perpetual lifetime lean bulk). Currently doing turkey, salami, and provalone on whole wheat everyday.

You can find some good ones. Just ask at the counter and tell them what your trying to avoid. I like Turkey for cold for a meal/snack.

 

[BuiltOne]

I eat low sodium turkey breast...other than that it will be hard to find a healthy cold cut.