Originally Posted by Hermes

As I am writing this, I am eating my lunch beets and real chicken breast.

I did a number of searches on sodium nitrate supplements including comparing sodium nitrate supplements to sodium nitrate preservatives in processed food - both appear to be the same except the capsules are sold for human consumption as a supplement and provide more sodium nitrate than found in processed meat where nitrates are added as a preservative.

Nitrates or nitrites in meat are considered bad for one's health...or are they?? I have a package of turkey in my fridge that claims no hormones, nitrates, nitrites and 99% fat free in large bold letters on the package. This stuff must be really healthy???

Here is an interesting article discussing nitrates and nitrates and health. Hmm. I am sticking with my diet of real beets and veggies that contain nitrates and super beets. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7139399/