Dried whole muscle
Bündnerfleisch
Air-dried beef from the Grisons. Pressed during drying, which is what gives the finished piece its rectangular section.
What this page is built from
- Protected names
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- US standards of identity
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- Composition rows
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- Named by FSIS
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- Buying guide
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This page exists because these joins exist. A class name that joins to no register entry, no standard, no composition row and no buying guide would not have a page.
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.
Buying it
Swiss air-dried beef, pressed into its characteristic rectangular block during drying. Switzerland is not in the EU register, so it is protected under Swiss law instead, which is a good illustration of the register's limit: absence from it is not evidence that a name is unprotected.
What to read on the label. Protected in Switzerland rather than in the EU register, so the EU designation marks will not appear on it.
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.