Bacon rashers, back, 'tendersweet', grilled

UK CoFID (McCance and Widdowson) · CoFID 2021 · food code 19-660 · checked 28 Oct 2026

≈ less than ½ carb choices · 1 carb choice = 15 g carbohydrate

UK figure: carbohydrate here leaves fibre out (“available carbohydrate”), as UK food labels do. US and Canadian figures on this site include fibre, so the two are not directly comparable. Your diabetes team can tell you which your plan counts.

100 g of Bacon rashers, back, 'tendersweet', grilled has 0.0 g carbohydrate (UK method, fibre not included), 0.0 g fiber and 0.0 g total sugars, according to McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods (UK CoFID).

How much?

UK CoFID lists no household measure for this food, so it starts at 100 g.

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Unit grams (g) ounces (oz)

Figures are for 100 g.

Also in this amount

• Calories 213 kcal
• Protein 26 g
• Saturated fat 4.5 g
• Sodium 1,390 mg
• Potassium Kidney 370 mg
• Phosphorus Kidney 220 mg

Other forms of bacon rashers

• Bacon rashers, back, sweetcure, grilled 1.6 g carbs (UK method) 100 g

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Figures are UK CoFID (McCance and Widdowson) values scaled from 100 g to the amount shown. “No data” means UK CoFID publishes no value for this food — not that it contains none. Added sugars and glycemic index are not shown: the food composition datasets we use do not publish them. Carbohydrate is available carbohydrate (fibre not included), as CoFID publishes it; fibre is AOAC fibre. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Your own carbohydrate target is set with your care team.