It took eleven years to review $6,000 worth of submitted jerky. A huge thank you to all the jerky makers who have submitted their jerky for review (169 Jerky Brands [June 11/2025 – 165] and 815 Jerky Bags [June 11/2025 – 774]). The single biggest complaint about jerky is the high price. Of course, the best way to get around the expensive price of jerky is to make your own homemade Read More

It took over eleven years to celebrate, reviewing 700 jerky flavor names to date. That is some serious creativity from the jerky makers. A jerky flavor can come under many different names. For example, Sweet & Spicy can be Sweet & Hot, Sweet ‘n Hot, Hot and Sweet, Hot ‘n Sweet, Hot & Sweet, Sweet and Spicy, Spicy and Sweet, Sweet Hot, Sweet and Zesty, etc. For each jerky review, we tag the flavor in a general category, where Read More

It took us over eleven years to celebrate creating 1200 Jerky Tags here at www.jerkyingredients.com. For the record, there are 75 jerky categories, whereas WordPress has a limit of around 100 categories. As a basic description, a Jerky Tag is descriptive, and a Jerky Category is generalized. Jerky tags are unlimited in the popular web content management system WordPress. Read More

It took us over eleven years to accumulate 75 jerky categories. Using the programming language PHP and, for example, the open source database MySQL interacting with WordPress, I can neatly organize the jerky tags and jerky categories under each jerky review with a little bit of creative computer programming and SQL database scripts with each review. Read More

It took us a little over eleven years to review 30 Jerky Types. When I started this jerky review website in 2014, I did not even know there were 30 jerky types. Now I know there are over 40 different jerky types, possibly 50, excluding fruit jerky. Finding a new jerky type is always exciting, especially if you have never tried it before. Using the term jerky can be disingenuous. The most Read More

While a few other jerky review websites have popped up over the years, only two active ones exist worldwide, and both have an information technology background. Steve Johnson from www.bestbeefjerky.org started reviewing jerky in 2008, and I launched jerkyingredients.com in 2014. While Steve is still the world leader in reviewing close to 400 jerky brands, we may Read More

It took us a little over eleven years to review 350 jerky distributors. Normally, the jerky manufacturer is also the jerky distributor. With that said, it is not all that uncommon to see private labelers manufacture jerky in the jerky industry. Every year, the gap slowly widens between the number of jerky brands that we have reviewed and the number of jerky distributors. As of this writing, we have reviewed 368 jerky brands. Read More