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Originally Posted by CFrance
I guess my point was that the natural foods containing nitrates also contain other nutrients necessary to break down the harmful cancer-causing parts of nitrates that the chemical nitrates do not.
So I would rather have all natural hotdogs with celery juice in them, containing vitamin C, than a hotdog with a manufactured nitrate in it.
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For the record, I don't believe that nitrate can be manufactured. It's extracted from certain foods and used as a preservative.
But we're talking about hot dogs here. I think that it would have to be a real stretch to consider any of them to be healthy.
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