Six Simple Ingredients

This delicious American icon and global brand launched in 1937 as “the meat of many uses,” and American households quickly ate it up. By 1940, 70 percent of urban Americans were eating SPAM^® products. But it was the arrival of World War II, and the need for easily transported protein, that fueled the SPAM^® brand’s incredible growth around the world. Today, with over a dozen varieties sold in more than 40 countries, this 80-year-old brand continues to ignite invention all over the world.

There is an age-old question though: What is in that special can of SPAM^® classic?

Many myths abound, but the answer is actually quite simple: six simple ingredients.