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Pork backbone

Pork backbone is a bony pork cut used for soups, braises, and stock-making.

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About Pork backbone

Pork backbone is the vertebral bone section of a pig, usually cut crosswise or into shorter pieces for cooking. It contains bone, connective tissue, attached meat, and sometimes skin or fat, and is used for soups, broths, stews, and stock-making.

The attached meat has a meaty, savory flavor and becomes tender during cooking, while the bone remains dense. The amount of meat, skin, fat, and connective tissue varies with trimming and the particular section sold, so the edible portion is not uniform.

Pieces may be sold fresh or frozen, whole in shorter sections, or cut crosswise into smaller pieces. Simmering extracts flavor and body for broth; braising softens the attached meat. It is used primarily for its meat and stock-making qualities rather than as a boneless pork cut.

Ingredient type
whole food

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Pork backbone nutrition & diet

Pork backbone nutritional value

Representative benchmark: Beef, not further specified

Representative nutrition benchmarkOfficial table values for a comparable food category, not a laboratory measurement of this exact ingredient.

Per 100 g of 100 g edible portion in the named official reference form.

Calories
154kcal
Protein
22.1g
Carbs
0.0g
Fat
7.2g

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Portions & preparation

Use the edible meat, connective tissue, and any marrow clinging to a cleaned pork backbone; bones themselves are not an edible serving. Simmering, braising, or roasting changes the amount of separable meat and rendered fat. Trimmed and untrimmed preparations therefore require different reference matches.

Compare the right form: Match references to cooked pork backbone with edible meat and connective tissue separated from bones, not raw bones or strained stock.

Diet considerations

Pork backbone is animal-derived and generally conflicts with vegetarian and vegan patterns. Compatibility also changes with the preparation: breading, sweet sauces, noodles, or cereal-based dumplings add ingredients that may matter. A strained stock differs from meat served on the bone, and edible portions vary substantially.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Typically incompatible
  • Vegetarian
    Typically incompatible
  • Pescatarian
    Typically incompatible
  • Keto
    May be compatible
  • Paleo
    May be compatible
  • Low-carb
    May be compatible
  • Halal
    Typically incompatible
  • Kosher
    Typically incompatible
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Typically incompatible
The ingredient profile identifies an animal-derived food or derivative.
Vegetarian · Typically incompatible
The profile identifies animal flesh, seafood or a derivative excluded by a vegetarian diet.
Pescatarian · Typically incompatible
The profile identifies land-animal meat or a derivative, which is excluded by this pescatarian definition.
Keto · May be compatible
The plain form may fit a carbohydrate-restricted diet. Check the portion, added sugar, coatings and sauces against the nutrition values above.
Paleo · May be compatible
May fit a paleo pattern, depending on the cut or form, processing and added ingredients.
Low-carb · May be compatible
The plain form may fit a carbohydrate-restricted diet. Check the portion, added sugar, coatings and sauces against the nutrition values above.
Halal · Typically incompatible
This profile identifies pork or a pork-derived ingredient.
Kosher · Typically incompatible
This profile identifies pork or a pork-derived ingredient.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Pacific Nutrient Database 2020 — 01.1.2.2.1_99 ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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