Find the healthiest lunch meats by comparing sodium, saturated fat, and preservatives. Learn which cold cuts are better for your sandwiches.

Cold cuts are convenient for making high-protein sandwiches, but choosing the healthiest lunch meat requires reading labels and avoiding too much salt, saturated fat, and preservatives like nitrates.

In post-war America, the deli counter was an adventurous place. Those meats defined lunchboxes, picnics, and kitchen staples for decades. Few of them survive today. The list below recalls the cold ...