Clean is better, Naturally Better.
We're proud to be leading the way in producing cleaner smallgoods in Australia, delivering quality you can feel good about.
Natural Process
Our Natural range is cured with a fermented celery extract and carefully selected natural ingredients.
Independently Tested
We laboratory test our products to ensure they have very low nitrite levels.
Making Change
We're proud to be driving change to more natural, quality Australian smallgoods.
Our Mission
It started with a simple belief: smallgoods could be better. Better ingredients, better Australian pork and a more honest approach to making the food we put on our own family tables.
Since 2013, we've challenged the way things have always been done, driven by a passion to make smallgoods we're proud to share with the people who matter most.
As an independent Australian business, we're here to change the category, one naturally better product at a time.
Our Natural Range
This is everything we believe great smallgoods should be.
Products made with Australian free-range meat, carefully selected ingredients, natural curing and wood-smoking methods, it's our commitment to doing things differently.
Three years of research, development and collaboration with the CSIRO went into perfecting our natural cure, creating a recipe we're incredibly proud of.
It means no unnecessary fillers or artificial preservatives, just honest ingredients, time-honoured craft and flavour worth sharing.
It's smallgoods made with care, and something we're genuinely proud to put on your family's table.
Frequently asked questions
What does "no added nitrates" mean?
We don’t add sodium nitrite (preservative 250) or any other nitrite preservative to the Natural range.
Is Uncle’s ham and bacon nitrate-free?
No, our products still contain nitrites but these are from natural sources and are at very low levels.
What is used to cure the product?
We use a naturally occurring celery extract.
The ingredient is derived from celery juice, which is treated with a lactic acid starter culture, dried into a powder and standardised with salt. This process converts naturally occurring nitrates into nitrites before the ingredient is added to our products.
Do you independently test your products?
Yes.
Our cooked smoked ham and cooked smoked sausages both returned results well below the relevant Australian Food Standards Code maximum permitted nitrite level of 125 mg/kg.
Our results: Cooked smoked ham: 21 mg/kg nitrite (less than 17% of the permitted maximum).
Cooked smoked sausages: 35 mg/kg nitrite (28% of the permitted maximum).
Get in touch.
If you have a question about how our products are made and what makes Uncle's different, please reach out. We're happy to discuss.