Wafer Thin Cooked Ham — DUMP

Munch or Dump rates Wafer Thin Cooked Ham by WARREN & SONS DUMP — score 20/90.

Processed deli meat held together with a phosphate stack and cured with sodium nitrite. Cheap, salty, and exactly the kind of meat that gets linked to bowel cancer.

Why this verdict

• Processed meat cured with sodium nitrite, a Group 1 carcinogen link
• Triple phosphate stack (di-, tri-, poly-) pumps in water and binds slices
• Only 86% pork, padded with water and added pork protein
• Salt-heavy with added dextrose and undefined 'flavouring'
• Classic NOVA 4 ultra-processed deli meat

Ingredients (13)

• Pork (86%) (moderate) — Real meat, but it's red/processed pork and the headline ingredient is diluted to 86%.
• Water (safe) — First ingredient by weight; this pudding is mostly water, not milk.
• Pork protein (moderate) — Reclaimed/added protein used as a cheap binder, a sign of a built product rather than a carved joint.
• Salt (moderate) — Ready meals tend to run salt-heavy; watch the sodium.
• potato starch (moderate) — Another refined starch used to bulk the chicken.
• Diphosphates (concerning) — Phosphate emulsifier that increases water retention; high phosphate intake is hard on kidneys and arteries.
• Triphosphate (concerning) — Second phosphate in a stacked trio; same water-binding job, same dietary phosphate load.
• Polyphosphates (concerning) — Third stacked phosphate; three of these together is a hallmark of cheap reformed meat.
• Dextrose (moderate) — A second added sugar, used on the chicken; spikes blood sugar fast.
• sodium ascorbate (safe) — Vitamin C salt; actually helps limit nitrosamine formation, the one mildly redeeming additive.
• YEAST EXTRACT (moderate) — Natural-source MSG/glutamate flavour enhancer to boost savouriness.
• Sodium Nitrite (harmful) — Curing salt that forms nitrosamines; the additive behind processed meat's Group 1 carcinogen status.
• flavouring (moderate) — Undefined flavour additive; opaque label with no detail on what's in it.