Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 1066008)

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.

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1066029)

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.