It took over nine years to review $8,000 worth of jerky. The biggest complaint that people have about jerky is that it’s expensive. While there are cheaper brands of jerky, good quality jerky can be expensive. Remember that jerky loses 50% to 75% of its weight due to moisture evaporating during drying. Of course, the best way to get around the expensive price of jerky is to make homemade jerky. Read More

It took us over 9 years to celebrate creating 1000 Jerky Tags here at www.jerkyingredients.com. For the record, there are 72 jerky categories created now, where 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

Inflation continues in 2023 with no real end in sight due to the rising prices of meat, ingredients, gas, wages, electricity, etc. The 2023 Jerky Price Update contains a mixed bag, but for the most part, the price of jerky went up in 2023. Every year we expand the number of jerky makers included for each type of jerky to get a better gage of the price. Seventeen types of jerky prices were updated in 2023. For the second year Read More

This marks our third published post regarding the price of one pound of jerky. In the 2022 One Pound Jerky Price Update, 20 one pound beef jerky brands were tracked. In this 2023 One Pound Beef Jerky Price Update, the list of jerky brands was expanded from 20 to 75 jerky brands. The price of one pound of beef jerky increased by $3.99 in 2023. However, the average price range decreased from $10 to Read More

This marks our second published post regarding the price of turkey jerky. In the 2022 Turkey Jerky Price Update, 21 turkey jerky brands were tracked. In this 2023 Turkey Jerky Price Update, the list of turkey jerky brands was expanded from 21 to 39 turkey jerky brands. Perhaps because of the expanded list of turkey jerky brands, the price of turkey jerky decreased by 25 cents in 2023. Read More

This marks our first published post regarding the price of mushroom jerky. We have not updated the mushroom jerky range since 2021, the only jerky price range not updated in 2022. In this 2023 mushroom jerky update, the price of mushroom jerky decreased by 50 cents per ounce of mushroom jerky, which is a welcome surprise. However, the average price range for an ounce of mushroom jerky was widened by 50 cents. Read More

This marks our first published post regarding the price of turtle jerky. Finding jerky makers that sell turtle jerky was challenging. Turtle jerky is hard to find and expensive. At least four jerky brands make turtle jerky but are currently out of stock. Some jerky makers sell turtle jerky but do not state the jerky weight. For whatever reason, the price of turtle jerky per ounce had a big increase in 2023. Read More

This marks our first published post regarding the price of python jerky. Finding jerky makers that sell python jerky was challenging. Python jerky is hard to find and expensive. For reasons unexplained, the price of python jerky rose $7.00 in our 2022 Jerky Price Update. The good news is that the price of python has decreased in 2023. Read More