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As an unabashed lover of cured meats, I've always lived in denial of the nitrate/cancer warnings..., smoking and curing meats seemed natural enough to me -- and since lots of other foods contain nitrates... 
A recent post on cured meats, cancer risk, and nitrates sparked a significant number of comments... — and the appropriate answers.
What are nitrates?
Although they can be manufactured in laboratories (mainly to cure...
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The nitrate content... nitrate tablets.
Even a small amount of beetroot juice can lower blood pressure...
has nitrates, which can be really badfor babies.
Does that sound right?
-- Jane Shou
Waltham, MA
Hmmm. Seems like whatever you read was written by a confused author.
Let's do some untangling.
First, the issue of nitrates...
: nitrates (and nitrites) in food are worse than previously thought. A recent study at Brown University found that dietary nitrates are strong predictors of chronic disease such as Type II diabetes, Alzheimer's... 
- Dietary nitrates, naturally found in some vegetables, may fight pre-diabetes, reduce blood pressure... research.
Vegetables that are particularly rich in nitrates include spinach, beet root, and lettuce...
- are boosted by nitrate, a substance found in abundance in vegetables such as lettuce, spinach and beetroot.
For half a century, inorganic nitrate has been associated with negative health effects...
, but a secondary pathway that generates NO from nitrate is activated. Furthermore, supplementing rats with dietary nitrate before inducing vessel injury markedly limited the extent of the damage, while a diet low...
- Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have found that dietary supplementation with inorganic nitrate... nitrate had a reduced rate of heart dysfunction caused by doxorubicin. On a molecular level, the dietary...
[In regards to your earlier posting about nitrates and baby food ], someone told me that baby food companies can screen for nitrates, any truth to that?
-- Kate (last name unknown)
Via the blog... 
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