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It's actually cured, and it's not better for you. When was the last time you read a story where the villain was celery? Pull up a chair.
The issue is that "uncured" bacon is actually cured. It's cured using exactly the same stuff — nitrite — used in ordinary bacon. It's just that, in the "uncured" meats, the nitrite is derived from celery or beets or some other vegetable or fruit naturally high in nitrate, which is easily converted to nitrite. In ordinary bacon and cured meats, the nitrite is in the form of man-made sodium nitrite. But the nitrite molecule is the same, no matter its source.
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For recreational use only.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @01:52AM (2 children)
I share your sentiment, and don't think the Bezos Post in any case is worth supporting, but I block scripts and was able to see the article.
I didn't read it though, because I don't care about the subject matter enough. I was only vaguely interested whether this "uncured bacon" thing was yet another "live to 100 / don't get cancer" food woo for coastal denizens.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 23 2019, @02:08AM (1 child)
Can't do at the office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Informative) by MostCynical on Tuesday April 23 2019, @04:43AM
Weirdly, while the laptops at my current employer are locked/corporate win 10, I successfully downloaded and installed palemoon.
On topic, TFA seems to be a rehash of as time article from 2015 http://time.com/4092912/nitrate-nitrite-bacon-cancer-meat/ [time.com]
Here is a good breakdown of different curing processes: https://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/nchfp/lit_rev/cure_smoke_cure.html [uga.edu]
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