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Re:Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovas... by reducesuffering on Thursday February 04, 2021 @05:09PM (#26030367)
Nitrates and Nitrites are the leading culprit for red meat causing cancer. There is bacon that is cured without them. It's just that they are added to most bacon and almost all processed red meats.
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Re:Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovas... by djrogers on Thursday February 04, 2021 @05:35PM (#26030579)
> There is bacon that is cured without them.

No, there really isn't. What we have is bacon producers using a loophole to use 'natural' nitrates from things like celery for curing. They're the exact same molecule and perform the same function, but because they used processed celery juice instead of pure sodium nitrite, they get to claim they're nitrate free.

They aren't.

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Re:Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovas... by reducesuffering on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:56AM (#26037653)
Ok, yes, I should’ve said there is bacon without them. Cured bacon still containing the natural nitrates are a good point, but there is uncured bacon that doesn’t contain nitrates.[0]

Ingredients: pork, water, sea salt, evaporated cane sugar

[0] https://products.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-everyday-v...

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Re:Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovas... by diggernet on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:41PM (#26042137)
Sugar? In bacon? Why?? Get rid of that crap. Give me bacon that contains only pork and salt, please.

I recently read the label for a bag of popcorn which had sugar as the first ingredient, before corn. That popcorn had more sugar than corn. Boggles the mind.

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