Dry-cured whole muscle
Presunto
The Portuguese dry-cured leg. Portugal has the largest number of protected meat names in the register after France.
What this page is built from
- Protected names
- 7
- 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
- Presunto de Barrancos / Paleta de Barrancos
- Presunto de Barroso
- Presunto de Campo Maior e Elvas / Paleta de Campo Maior e Elvas
- Presunto de Melgaço
- Presunto de Santana da Serra / Paleta de Santana da Serra
- Presunto de Vinhais / Presunto Bísaro de Vinhais
- Presunto do Alentejo / Paleta do Alentejo
Buying it
The Portuguese dry-cured ham, and the country with the second-largest holding of protected meat names in the register after Italy. Presunto de Barrancos, Presunto do Alentejo and Presunto de Santana da Serra are all designations of origin, several of them made from the black Alentejano pig.
What to read on the label. Portugal protects these by region. Presunto without a region is a description of a technique.
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.