Cooked deli meats

The cooked Italian deli meats are produced using the same pigs used for the production of the most famous raw cured meats: unlike these, their production involves a cooking process, which characterizes the taste, the nutritional qualities and inevitably also the ingredients necessary for achieve them. For example, they are suitable for consumption during pregnancy, because the cooking phase inhibits any threat to the mother and unborn child. This group includes cooked ham, mortadella, cotechino and zampone, but also other products less known as greaves.