Dry-cured whole muscle
Speck
A boned, lightly smoked and air-dried leg. The protected specifications sit at the boundary between the Italian dry-cured and the Alpine smoked traditions.
What this page is built from
- Protected names
- 3
- 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
Buying it
A dry-cured ham that is also lightly cold smoked, which is unusual: most protected dry hams are not smoked at all. Speck Alto Adige is the protected name, and the specification covers both the cure and the smoke, which is what separates it from a ham that has been smoked as an afterthought.
What to read on the label. Alto Adige is the protected name. Speck elsewhere in Europe can mean plain cured fat, which is a different product entirely.
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 Speck Alto Adige / Südtiroler Markenspeck / Südtiroler Speck 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
- $89.95
- Brand
- Alma Gourmet
- ASIN
- B004BH2WVS
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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.