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Bacon has been celebrated as a favorite food around America and the rest of world for thousands of years in various forms, and in modern times has tended to either be placed on a pedestal of nutrition, or cast to the basement level of foods deemed healthy due to its fat content.  Science, however, has both good and bad things to say about this delicious, crispy meat and a lot of it actually isn’t bad.  I bet there are some interesting things you never guessed about bacon.  Let’s see if we can find a few of them!

Bacon has been around in some form or other since about 1500 BC, for example.  And the first package of sliced bacon you could buy in a supermarket was introduced by Oscar Mayer, way back in 1924.  That’s a long time ago, but bacon remains a favorite food for millions of people who put it on everything from battered sticks at the fairgrounds, to burgers and even vodka!  Here is an infographic with more information about bacon.