Get Real about antibiotics and growth promotants
No Antibiotics
Conventional, and some "natural", farms put antibiotics in feed and water. This helps keep animals healthy while they're living in close confinement and makes them grow faster. Experts believe bacteria resistant to these antibiotics can pass into humans through meat, resulting in increased antibiotic resistance in humans. That's why Nature's Premium farmers never use antibiotics. If an animal is sick, it is treated, and removed from the natural program.
No Growth Promotants...Ever
Steroids, hormones and growth-promoting drugs are typically used at conventional industrial farms to speed growth. Nature’s Premium farmers don’t risk the animals’ health or yours. Our animals are raised the natural way without the use of growth promotants of any kind.
No preservatives
Using preservatives and artificial additives to enhance the flavor and texture of deli products is a common practice. Nature's Premium products are all-natural and preservative free. Even our sliced deli meats and cheeses maintain the same fresh-cut quality you'll find with our full-service deli products. That's because we use high-pressure pasteurization instead of chemical preservatives.
Nature's Premium All-Natural Deli Meats and Cheeses contain:
- No salt solution in our ham
- No nitrates or nitrites in our pastrami, salami, corned beef or ham
- No MSG in our meats and cheeses
- No rBGH in our cheeses
- Research shows preservatives in food will have a negative long-term effect on our health. Nature's Premium prefers to use high quality pork for hams instead of pumping poor quality meat with a salt solution.
- Studies have linked nitrate and nitrite consumption to cancer. So we cure our meats naturally with celery salt and carrot juice.
- Nature's Premium relies on natural, high quality ingredients for flavor, not MSG.
- Nature's Premium never gives dairy cows Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormones (rBGH), the genetically engineered drug that many farmers administer to increase milk production.
Food Safety
Nature's Premium All-Natural Deli Products come from animals raised in the United States so you can count on quality and safety. Our state-of-the-art processing facilities are unique in their small size, eco-friendliness and dedication to safe processes. In addition, we reinforce the quality of our products with protocols that allow traceability back to the family farms where the animals were raised.
Best-in-Class Farms
All Nature's Premium livestock are proudly raised on Midwest family farms where animal welfare is a priority. These farms offer exceptional animal healthcare, sanitation and humane treatment.
No Byproducts
To save money, some conventional producers of deli products feed animal byproducts to livestock. Nature’s Premium animals are nourished with a strict vegetarian diet, much of which is grown naturally on the same family farms.
Humane Treatment
When animals are treated poorly or violently, they're more prone to injure themselves or their handlers. Nature's Premium is dedicated to treating them well throughout their lives. At the farm, they're raised gently. In transport, our handlers treat the animals with care. At every stage of the program, we use humane practices to keep our animals stress-free for the highest quality.
Get Real about allergens and glutens
Many deli products use wheat products and other common allergens as additives, filler and binders. This often causes reactions in unsuspecting allergy sufferers. With Nature's Premium All-Natural Deli offerings, allergy sufferers are safe. Our products contain none of the following:
- Milk (except in cheeses)
- Egg
- Peanuts
- Tree nuts
- Fish
- Shellfish
- Soy
- Wheat
- Barley