Bacon bits in a bowl.

Bacon bits are condiments frequently used to enhance the flavor of salad or potatoes. They are a common element of salad bars. Bacon bits are made of either small, crumbled pieces of cooked bacon or, more frequently, textured vegetable protein (soya) artificially flavoured to resemble bacon. They are most often salted. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Salad Platter Cold Meat Salad Decorated green salad Salad is a mixture of foods (lettuce), usually including vegetables or fruits, often with a dressing or sauce, occasionally nuts or croutons and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish, pasta or cheese. ... For other uses, see Potato (disambiguation). ... A salad bar is a buffet-style table on which the components of a salad are placed. ... For other uses, see Bacon (disambiguation). ... Dry TVP flakes are an inexpensive protein source when purchased in bulk and can be added to a variety of vegetarian dishes or used as a supplement to bulk out a meat dish. ... Soya (chiefly British English) or soy (chiefly American English) is the herb Glycine max, which produces the soya bean or soybean (see that article for more detail). ... This article is about common table salt. ...

Popular brands include Hormel Bacon Toppings, Oscar Meyer Real Bacon Bits and Pieces, and Betty Crocker Bac-Os. Hormel Foods Corporation NYSE: HRL is probably best known as the producer of SPAM luncheon meat. ... Betty Crocker, an invented persona and mascot, is a brand name and trademark of American food company General Mills. ...

The Betty Crocker Bac-Os product contains genetically modified soya. Betty Crocker, an invented persona and mascot, is a brand name and trademark of American food company General Mills. ... Genetic engineering, genetic modification (GM), and gene splicing (once in widespread use but now deprecated) are terms for the process of manipulating genes in an organism, usually outside of the organisms normal reproductive process. ...

References

• Bac-Os from Betty Crocker
• Real Bacon Toppings from Hormel
• Real Bacon Bits from Oscar Meyer