Nitrates and Nitrites are the leading culprit for red meat causing cancer. There is bacon that is cured without them. It's just that they are added to most bacon and almost all processed red meats.
No, there really isn't. What we have is bacon producers using a loophole to use 'natural' nitrates from things like celery for curing. They're the exact same molecule and perform the same function, but because they used processed celery juice instead of pure sodium nitrite, they get to claim they're nitrate free.
Ok, yes, I should’ve said there is bacon without them. Cured bacon still containing the natural nitrates are a good point, but there is uncured bacon that doesn’t contain nitrates.[0]
Sugar? In bacon? Why?? Get rid of that crap. Give me bacon that contains only pork and salt, please.
I recently read the label for a bag of popcorn which had sugar as the first ingredient, before corn. That popcorn had more sugar than corn. Boggles the mind.
