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> 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 lik
by djrogers 6y ago
> 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.
- reducesuffering 6y agoOk, 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-value-uncured-smokehouse-bacon-bf1325 https://products.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-everyday-v...
- diggernet 6y agoSugar? 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.