Are Nitrates Pollutants or Nutrients?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-02-23

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DESCRIPTION: Phytonutrients such as vitamin C prevent the formation of nitrosamines from nitrites, which explains why adding nitrite preservatives to processed meat can be harmful, but adding more vegetables and their nitrite-forming nitrates to our diet can be helpful. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/are-nitrates-pollutants-or-nutrients/ and I'll try to answer it! If you just arrived right in the middle of this story, for the benefits of vegetable nitrates I allude to, see Doping With Beet Juice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/doping-with-beet-juice/), Out of the Lab and Onto the Track (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/out-of-the-lab-onto-the-track/), and Vegetables Rate by Nitrate (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vegetables-rate-by-nitrate/). For the problems associated with nitrites added to meat, see yesterday's video (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bacon-and-botulism/) and When Nitrites Go Bad (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/when-nitrites-go-bad/). Which meats have the most nitrite? Find out in tomorrow's video-of-the-day. Which veggies have the most nitrate? See Vegetables Rate by Nitrate (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vegetables-rate-by-nitrate/). There are 48 other videos  (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/phytonutrients/) on what phytonutrients can do. Good places to start include The Power of No (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-power-of-no/), Phytochemicals: The Nutrition Facts Missing From the Label (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/phytochemicals-the-nutrition-facts-missing-from-the-label/), and Convergence of Evidence (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/convergence-of-evidence/). And there are hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects here at NutritionFacts.org (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/) —enjoy!

Please also check out my associated blog post http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2012/03/22/using-greens-to-improve-athletic-performance/!

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