"Yes, bacon really is killing us"

[liuzhou]

One of my favourite food writers on the nitrate / nitrite problem. Good read. Or maybe not.

Edited July 14, 2022 by liuzhou (log)

[gfweb]

Long article, interesting.

Unless I missed it (I could have), I can't find an analysis of the 26% increase in bowel cancer linked to nitrosamines. 

  -What is the amount of bacon consumption needed to trigger this risk? Certainly not two slices a month.

  -Is this independent of family history/genetic predisposition?  Or are those with bad genes the ones who can't eat bacon?

[cdh]

" A few weeks after publishing the report, the WHO issued a clarification insisting it was not telling consumers to stop eating processed meat." Hmmmm.... an order of both bacon both ways? You can't have it both ways. 

[gfweb]

A current meat packer's "hack" is to use nitrate -rich celery juice and then say "no added nitrates" on their corned beef or whatever.

[mgaretz]

4 minutes ago, gfweb said:

A current meat packer's "hack" is to use nitrate -rich celery juice and then say "no added nitrates" on their corned beef or whatever.

 

Or worse, call it "uncured" which is a load of...

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, gfweb said:

A current meat packer's "hack" is to use nitrate -rich celery juice and then say "no added nitrates" on their corned beef or whatever.

 

as the article says

[Duvel]

1 hour ago, gfweb said:

A current meat packer's "hack" is to use nitrate -rich celery juice and then say "no added nitrates" on their corned beef or whatever.

Because when it is natural, it couldn’t possibly be linked to cancer !

[Anna N]

This could be part of the problem. 
 

“thick-cut from a local butcher”

 

Here we tend to use pork belly. 
 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

The sobering side story is how the less affluent are most at risk for preservative caused cancers.    Bacon is not on our regular rotation, and I've switched to salt pork, pancetta and guanciale for cooking.   However, these are costly alternatives and not readily available in many stores.    A re-occuring story of many food categories as well as health education and services.

[gfweb]

2 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

as the article says

 

Defensive?

Don't know why.

But carry-on.