Assertion: nitrate | /r/CapableOf | end up as nitrite
Facets:
value: in the stomach
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Thus, if nitrite truly were of concern to human health because of its propensity to form carcinogenic nitrosamines, then the human body would have a significant evolutionary design flaw because ≈5% of all ingested and endogenously produced nitrate eventually ends up as nitrite in the stomach, as pointed out by Archer109 (so far about “intelligent design”).