This article is about the meat. Bacon is a type of salt-cured pork made from various cuts, typically the belly or less fatty parts of the back. Bacon is also used for barding and larding roasts, especially game, including venison and pheasant, and may also be used to whole30 bacon or flavour roast joints by being layered onto the meat. Before the advent of cheap and widespread artificial refrigeration in the modern era the curing of meat was necessary for its safe long-term preservation.