Dry-cured whole muscle
Jambon sec
The French dry-cured leg. The register distinguishes jambon sec from the many cooked and smoked jambon names, which belong to different process families.
What this page is built from
- Protected names
- 12
- US standards of identity
- 0
- Composition rows
- 0
- Named by FSIS
- no
- Buying guide
- yes
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.
Protected names in this class
- Jambon d'Ardenne
- Jambon d'Auvergne
- Jambon de Bayonne
- Jambon de l'Ardèche
- Jambon de Lacaune
- Jambon de Vendée
- Jambon du Kintoa
- Jambon noir de Bigorre
- Jambon sec de Corse / Jambon sec de Corse - Prisuttu
- Jambon sec de l'Ile de Beauté
- Jambon sec des Ardennes / Noix de Jambon sec des Ardennes
- Valle d'Aosta Jambon de Bosses
Buying it
The French dry ham. Jambon de Bayonne is the protected name most often seen outside France, and its specification covers the salt as well as the pig: the salt has to come from the Adour basin, which is the kind of clause that makes a designation of origin different from a quality mark.
What to read on the label. Bayonne is the protected name. Jambon sec is the category.
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 one carries a protected name. The listing below puts Jambon de Bayonne in its own title, which is a designation claim rather than a style description. Where this site can find a product carrying a registered name it links that in preference to a generic one, because the page above has just explained why the two are not the same thing.
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Listing
- Lowest new, checked 2026-09-04
- $213.11
- Brand
- Fabrique Delices
- ASIN
- B0GZ83V6R5
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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.