Is Chopped Pork High In Syns? - Our Slimming World Syn Guide

If you are looking to make an easy stir fry for dinner with some chopped pork or even a sandwich for lunch, you might be curious as to if chopped pork has syns on the slimming world?

Chopped pork does indeed have syns on the slimming world if you choose the canned version, on average you are looking at around 12.5 syns for 100g of this meat, making it quite high in syns.

We've put together a short guide below taking you through why chopped pork is high in syns, syn values and some low syn alternative tinned meats for an easy lunch or dinner.

Why Is Chopped Pork High In Syns?

Chopped pork has 12.5 syns for 100g, making it very high in syns and using most of your 15 syn daily allowance.

This tinned pork gets its high syn values from the fat content, having up to 21g of fat for a 100g portion, it's also high in sodium, having 2.4g of salt in a 100g portion, so we would suggest having the tinned meat in moderation.

Chopped Pork Syn Values

Chopped pork all has a similar syn value no matter where you buy it from, we've listed some syn values of this meat to help you out down below.

• Spam Chopped Pork and Ham 200g - 14.5 syns for 100g.
• Pek Chopped Pork 300g - 13 syns for 100g.
• Hall's Sliced Chopped Ham & Pork 125g - 2 syns a slice.
• Spam Chopped Pork and Ham Lite 200g - 11.5 syns.
• Pek Chopped Pork Gold 170g - 8 syns for 100g.
• Tesco Chopped Pork & Ham 200g - 6.5 syns for 50g.
• Delicatessen Fine Eating Chopped Pork 130g - 10 syns for 100g.
• Asda Chopped Pork & Ham 200g - 12.5 syns for 100g.
• Sainsbury's Chopped Pork & Ham 200g - 13.5 syns.
• Morrisons Chopped Pork & Ham 300g - 7 syns.
• Royal Dane Chopped Pork with Ham 250g - 15 syns.

Does Regular Pork Have Syns?

If chopped pork has syns, you might be wondering about regular pork slices, do they also have syns on the plan? Well, regular pork is in fact syn free on the slimming world as long as all of the visible fat is removed, since canned pork does not have its fat removed, it is not syn free.

Pork is one the fattiest types of meat so we would suggest eating it in moderation or choosing less fatty cuts such as a pork shoulder joint.

Low Syn Alternatives To Chopped Pork

If you find chopped pork to be too high in syns, you might be wondering if there are any lower syn alternatives, we've listed a few canned options down below to help you out.

• Wikinger Hot Dogs 1030G - 9.5 syns per one.
• Tesco Danish Ham 340G - 2.5 syns for 50g.
• Princes Round Ham 200G - 7.5 syns for 100g.
• Ye Olde Oak Premium Jumbo Hot Dogs 560G - 2 syns per one.
• Tulip Pork Luncheon Meat 250G - 15 syns for 100g.
• Tulip Bacon Grill 250G - 15 syns for 100g.
• Princes Reduced Salt Corned Beef 340G - 11 syns for 100g.
• Tulip Premium Cured Chicken Breast 200G - 5 syns for 100g.
• Tesco Ox Tongue 184G - 6 syns.

Last Words

To conclude, chopped pork is a very high syn canned meat due to the high fat content of the pork, we would therefore suggest eating it in moderation or suggest having regular pork cuts to help reduce syns. Always be careful about fat and sodium contents inside of tinned meats since they can often be high in order to preserve the meat inside.