One week I buy bacon...next time I buy turkey bacon.I do not know why or when I started swtiching foods around. Love BLT but do not eat on regular basis. The other night...ultimate sin...chicken fried steak, whipped potatoes with gravy and biscuts. I am sure nitrates were there somewhere-hopefully they were diluted by the gravy. My hubby still thanking me for that meal
Frank ole son, you're deep. I don't eat oscar meyer salami but eat oscar meyer everything else. I'm a sandwich guy. Can't help it. I learn sandwiches from, well, there used to be this guy named Dagwood Bumstead. He and Blonde were a couple and I learned to make a good sandwiches from Dagwood. Now he didn't discuss nitrates or nitrites and it's a wonder he didn't because he himself was well rounded in his knowledge, kind of like Frank. Used to be when I'd make a sandwich and it had three or four meats on it and maybe some left overs and two or three types of cheese, with onions and pickles and two kinda of lettuce with a few slices of home-grown tomatoes and my wife would question my sanity and I'd just say, "babe, it's a Dagwood." I do wonder why oh, why pray tell, I'm just now finding out a bout them nitrates, Why, I could have damaged my liver.
Nitrated and nitrites are carcinogenic mean they cause cancer but cancer starts at a cellular level so it might take ten/twenty years before it grows large enough to be a threat. Now if your immune system finds it and works correctly it means no problem. If you were to eat nitrites/nitrates on a regular bases you increase your chances of getting cancer.