Schmacon

Executive Director of the Idaho Beef Council, Traci Bracco told me about Schmacon. “One of the things that we do with our beef checkoff dollars is help develop new products and new cuts of beef. We are very excited to announce that one is coming to market. It is a new beef item that is being rolled out to the restaurant sector and it is called Schmacon. It is beef’s answer to bacon. It is smoked and cured, glazed beef slices and has recently won an award in 2014 beverage innovations award that was presented at the National Restaurant Association’s show in Chicago. It looks and smells as tantalizing as bacon, it crisps up like bacon, it cooks like bacon in only a fraction of the time and satisfies you with that great taste that we have all come to know and love about bacon. But it is a much healthier alternative. A serving of Schmacon is only about 30 cal and 2 g of fat whereas a serving of pork bacon averages about 60 to 90 cal and about 4 1/2 to 7 g of fat.