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Cheshire Pork

Southern Foods is an exclusive retailer of North Carlina’s own Cheshire Pork—Heritage Farms products. Cheshire Pork has more than 45 years of selective breeding through their heritage breeds. This gives the pork superior flavor with consistency in texture and marbling!

Our Pork

At Cheshire Pork® we remind our customers that we are not just a breed. We have the advantage of more than 45 years of selective breeding by choosing only the top 3% of our heritage breeds, which is what gives our pork superior flavor, consistency in texture, and marbling.

Why Cheshire Pork Every Time

We are the Official House Purveyor for the James Beard Foundation

Heritage Breed Genetics with over 45 years of breeding and choosing only the top 3% performers

Superior marbling (intramuscular fat = flavor)

High in oleic acid (monounsaturated fat), which lowers “bad” cholesterol and increases “good” cholesterol

Has a velvety, irresistible “mouthfeel”

We are the only marketed pork brand that includes Chester White genetics

Higher pH level (ensures moisture retention when cooking)

Consistency

Single source genetics, total feed control

Genetics provided by Ivey Spring Creek Farms

Our Cheshire White breed is virtually free of the stress gene = better flavor

High Minolta scores (measured for red coloring in raw pork)

ABOUT THE HOGS

For the past 40 years, the Ivey family has been raising heritage breed hogs on the family farm in Seven Springs, North Carolina. They have selectively bred a herd of Chester White hogs that is widely known for its intramuscular fat and the superior taste that this fat imparts. Careful farming practices and close monitoring of the herd’s genetics have produced what we believe to be the juiciest and most flavorful pork in the market. This pork is richly colored, well marbled, and always juicy. The pork gets high Minolta scores, a measurement of the red color of the pork, and for having a pH that is more neutral, which insures moisture retention during cooking.