Dried whole muscle
Basturma
Salt-cured, pressed and air-dried beef coated in a spice paste. One of the products for which FSIS tabulates the available lethality support.
What this page is built from
- Protected names
- 2
- US standards of identity
- 0
- Composition rows
- 0
- Named by FSIS
- yes
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US standard of identity
No section of 9 CFR part 319 defines this product. That is worth knowing: it means the name carries no compositional guarantee in the United States, and two products sold under it may have been made quite differently.
Protected names in this class
Buying it
Air-dried beef coated in a fenugreek and garlic paste, from Armenia through Turkey to Egypt. It sits in the same process family as bresaola and biltong: a whole muscle salted and dried without fermentation and without heat.
What to read on the label. Spelled basturma, pastirma or pastourma depending on where it was made. The coating is the identifying feature.
Worth repeating in a buying context: no section of 9 CFR part 319 defines this product, so in the United States the word on the front of the pack is a marketing term. The compositional statements that are regulated are the ones on the back, in the ingredient list and the nutrition panel.
This is not a protected designation. The listing below is a product of this type, not a registered name. The register entries for this class are listed above and none of them is what is linked here.
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Register data: eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register, retrieved 2026-09-04. Composition: USDA FoodData Central, retrieved 2026-09-04, All values are per 100 g of the food as described.