Bacon! Schmacon! “Schmacon is delicious and different than anything else on the market,” shared Howard Bender, owner of Schmaltz Deli in Naperville, Ill. “It has about half the calories and half the fat, and it tastes great.” The beef bacon product was launched in 2015 and comes from the underbelly of cattle.
Source: Drovers CattleNetwork, July 24, 2016.
It is a new way for us to utilize more of the total carcass,” says Mark Gwin, Certified Angus Beef product integration manager. “What we’re trying to do is value-add those lower priced parts of the carcass.”