Re:The risk of nitrites and nitrates in bacon
by tptacek on Saturday March 03, 2018 @07:06PM
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Benton's is great bacon, but:
(1) You can look at that price tag and see why it's unlikely to be your go-to bacon,
(2) Last I checked, Benton's used a nitrate cure, and
(3) Seriously, intensely smoked food (Benton's bacon qualifies) is probably going to be more carcinogenic from the smoking compounds than from the cure. Unlike nitrate->N-nitrosamine, we're pretty clear on how smoked food causes gastric cancer.
(1) You can look at that price tag and see why it's unlikely to be your go-to bacon,
(2) Last I checked, Benton's used a nitrate cure, and
(3) Seriously, intensely smoked food (Benton's bacon qualifies) is probably going to be more carcinogenic from the smoking compounds than from the cure. Unlike nitrate->N-nitrosamine, we're pretty clear on how smoked food causes gastric cancer.