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How Turkey Breasts Are Turned Into Lunch Meat By Erica Martinez Dec. 9, 2025 7:00 pm EST

It's obvious that lunch meat goes through a good bit of processing before it hits the deli counter. After all, those large hunks of turkey and roast beef come in perfect loaf shapes so they can be attractively and evenly sliced to put on your wheat or rye bread. If you were to place a deli turkey breast next to one you roasted in the oven yourself, it's easy to see the difference. As it turns out, turning turkey into lunch meat is an involved and pretty fascinating process.

By the time the turkey breasts are ready for processing into lunch meat, they've already been inspected, de-boned, and skinned. Transforming the plain meat into a deli counter staple begins by injecting

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