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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Ham (especially low quality) is usually dyed because people are used to see it pink and are turned off by the greyish tones it normally takes. A nitrites free ham from the butcher’s has a grey tone to it.

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