Why is roast pork white and ham is pink when it comes from the same animal?

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Why is roast pork white and ham is pink when it comes from the same animal?

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Same reason a corned beef/silver side is red but a beef roast when cooked well done is brown. The curing process with salt and sugar and other ingredients like nitrites that ham and bacon go through compared to roast pork, cause the ham to change colour