https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos...

[0]: https://applegate.com/products/natural-thick-cut-bacon

It's exactly the same, except one uses celery. No, in fact, if I remember correctly, the nitrates used in the "uncured" process were even higher than the normal process.

You could simply measure the levels of nitrite before any exists and the end product might still have just as much.

The only candidate would be natural flavors, and I sort of doubt that they would get away with that.

That site lists “natural flavors” as an ingredient. I wonder if celery salt counts as a natural flavor in the UK.

This UK producer:

https://www.primalcut.co.uk/post/nitrate-free-bacon-bringing...

Contains the weasel words I pasted in below, which are verbatim what the US producers that use celery salt claim. Also, they don’t list the natural flavors. I’d bet they’re using celery salt, but that UK labeling laws don’t make them break it out as a separate ingredient:

> Primal Cut free-from naked bacon contains only fresh organic fruit sugars and nitrates present in the natural raw organic seasonings.

Sure, there's less protein in vegetables, so less chance of nitrosamines forming, unless you're eating a complete meal, in which case... figure it out.

Also, vegetables contain anti-oxidants and things which offset some of the nitrates, but this just seems like a reason to eat some vegetables with your cured meats.

[1] https://locavoredelivery.com/blog/some-facts-about-bacon-wit...

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos...

Sad to learn about the celery nitrite thing. I’ve been overpaying for it for a while now, apparently. It literally says “contains no preservatives” but has “cultured celery extract” in the ingredients, so its a lie.

It's better to stick the the regular version; the kinks have been probably worked out. Still unsafe, but unsafe in a known quantity.

It feels like saying something contains no nitrites or preservatives and then including them in the form of cultured celery extract should be fraud/false advertising and a crime.

This is why Vitamin C was a required additive, with "nitrate" cured meats. Unfortunately, it is not with the "nitrate from celery" forms, which should lead to more cancer.

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/classic/research/...

> The bill, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed into law by President Biden in 2021, requires manufacturers to label sesame on their products starting this year.

> In response, some companies began adding sesame to products that hadn’t included it in the past—saying it was safer to add sesame and label it, rather than certify they had eliminated all traces of it.

> People with sesame allergies say the result is fewer sesame-free food options, as well as new and unexpected risks from sesame in foods they used to eat without worry.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sesame-allergy-sufferers-wanted...

Prop 65. It's everywhere in California and it's completely useless.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118565-are-potatoes-no...

(I have 2 kids, but both are in their early 20s.)

It's going to depend on how this turns out exactly.

https://www.who.int/news/item/15-05-2023-who-advises-not-to-...

Depending on the topic, I'm in camp abstinence.

If you are trying to lose weight, then just use less sugar. That’s actually pretty easy, since artificial sweeteners and sugary drinks desensitize you to sweet stuff.

If you taper off for a week or so, you’ll find that the stuff you were previously drinking is cloyingly sweet.

For instance, reading a starbucks menu makes me shudder. I can’t even drink their non-dairy lattes anymore because they are too sweet.

Liquid chocolate, the kind we drink as a hot beverage in Central and South America, was difficult for me to get used to without any sweet taste. Nowadays I prefer it that way. Coffee is a bit more difficult for me.

The amount of calories in two teaspoons of sugar is minuscule.

Source: My dad has a heart attack from drinking liters of diet soda every day.