Brined and cooked
Corned beef
Brine-cured beef. Three separate sections of 9 CFR 319 cover corned beef, corned beef brisket and other corned beef cuts, and each fixes a different limit on the finished weight relative to the fresh weight.
What this page is built from
- Protected names
- 0
- US standards of identity
- 3
- Composition rows
- 4
- Named by FSIS
- no
This page exists because these joins exist. A class name that joined to nothing would not have a page.
US standard of identity
Composition
| Food | Sodium, mg | Salt, % | Water, g | Protein, g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beef, cured, corned beef, brisket, cooked | 973 | 2.47 | 59.8 | 18.2 |
| Beef, cured, corned beef, brisket, raw | 1,220 | 3.10 | 66.6 | 14.7 |
| Beef, cured, corned beef, canned | 897 | 2.28 | 57.7 | 27.1 |
| Corned beef loaf, jellied | 953 | 2.42 | 69.1 | 22.9 |
Buying it
Brine-cured beef, and a reminder that curing is not the same as drying. Corned beef is cured and then cooked, so it is a refrigerated product rather than a shelf-stable one, and none of the water activity limits on this site apply to it.
What to read on the label. A cooked, refrigerated product. Shelf-stable canned versions are a different process again.
This class does have a US standard of identity, which means the name on the pack is constrained by 9 CFR part 319 rather than left to the maker. The standard is linked above and is worth reading before deciding what the word promised you.
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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Listing
Iberia Corned Beef, 12 oz, Premium Quality Corned Beef With Natural Juices, Halal
- Lowest new, checked 2026-09-04
- $6.29
- Brand
- Iberia
- ASIN
- B005F5K8PM
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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.