Indiana Jerky Beef Less Salt

Indiana Jerky Beef Less Salt: the bag where the beef does the talking

Indiana Jerky Beef Less Salt is beef jerky built on a stripped-back cure. Where the rest of the Indiana line leans on pepper, garlic and a salt-forward seasoning, this one keeps the seasoning list about as short as a cured meat can manage: salt, dialled down, and a hardwood smoke. What is left is the beef, and that turns out to be the point.

Why this one

• Short seasoning, long flavour: with less on top of the meat, the beef itself comes forward instead of arriving third.
• You can eat more of it: a salt-heavy jerky tires the palate after a few strips. This one keeps going.
• High in protein, low in sugar: nothing sweet has gone anywhere near the cure.
• The same texture as the Original: soft, pliable, properly chewy. Only the seasoning has changed.

How Indiana makes it

Beef is cured exactly as the Original is, but with the salt reduced and a hardwood smoke doing the seasoning work that pepper and garlic do elsewhere in the range. It is then dried slowly, so the strips stay bendy. The bag is closed under a protective atmosphere and sits happily in a cupboard while it is sealed; once opened, Indiana wants it eaten inside a couple of days, a rule nobody has ever struggled to follow.

Taste and texture

Quieter and rounder than the Original, with the hardwood smoke sitting in the middle of the flavour and a savoury, faintly sweet-edged beefiness behind it that you simply miss when there is more salt in the way. The finish is soft and short, with no coating left on the tongue. Texture is unchanged from the rest of the line: firm first bite, then it yields.

Who it is for

People who eat a lot of jerky and know what a salt-heavy bag does to them by strip six. Households where somebody is keeping half an eye on how salty things are. Anyone trying to talk a sceptic into dried beef, because there is nothing here to object to.

Frequently asked

Does it taste bland? No. Less salt means the beef and the smoke get more room, not that the flavour has been removed. Plenty of people move over from the Original and stay.

How does it compare with the Beef Original? Same beef, same soft dry, same chew. The Original is saltier and carries pepper and garlic; this is cleaner and smokier.

Does it need a fridge? No. Cool, dry and sealed is all it asks for, which is why it travels so well.

Order Indiana Jerky Beef Less Salt at Jerky Store Europe

In stock in 25 g bags and fifteen-pack cases, shipping fast across Europe from Jerky Store Europe.