Pork is probably the dirtiest/least nutritious meat and bacon is pumped full of nitrates and preservatives usually. Real meat, like game, bison and wild fish are absolutely the best things you could ever put into your body. Even regular beef if thats the best you can afford or locate. Some organ/offal meats too!
Agreed, those other meats are super! And bacon is awesome, the most delicious food on earth in my opinion and that of millions.
Now I'm going to blow your mind out of your skull. Maybe put a towel on the floor.
Ready?
Vegetables are full of nitrates too.
Nitrates in Vegetables and Fruits
Naturally occurring nitrates and nitrites [are] often coupled with nutrients like vitamin C and antioxidants that prevent them from converting into nitrosamines. Vegetables are actually the highest source of natural nitrates, while fruits trail somewhere behind them. The vegetables that are the highest in nitrates include:
Green, leafy vegetables (like spinach, mustard greens, arugula, kale, Swiss chard and lettuce)
Beetroot
Radishes
Turnips
Watercress
Bok choy
Chinese cabbage
Kohlrabi
Chicory leaf
Celery
Onion
Garlic
Some fruits do contain nitrates, but the amounts are generally low. The fruits that do contain nitrates include:
Watermelon
Apples
Bananas
Grapes
Kiwi fruit
Nectarines/peaches
Pears
Oranges
Strawberries
The report in Aging and Disease points out that approximately 80 to 90 percent of dietary nitrates come from green, leafy vegetables. The second biggest source is drinking water, which provides 15 to 20 percent of daily intake.
Long as you get adequate antioxidant supplementation including Vitamin C (easy to do :), nitrosamine formation from nitrates in bacon is not a problem...compared to the problem of not eating bacon!
I appreciate the overly long copy&pasted reply, I'm talking about added chemicals to the bacon. Nitrates and nitrites, preservatives (which you glossed over) etc. And the fact its from a really poorly-fed animal which you also glossed over, compared to an animal in the wild or a ruminant that eats mostly grass.
Yes its delicious and im eating some right now with breakfast. Just dont confuse bacon, a side dish/flavoring, with a proper meal of steak or other cut of minimimally-processed animal, when you speak of the merits of a high meat diet. Bacon, unless sourced from someone who makes some more naturally than an Oscar Meyer factory, shouldnt be a highly featured aspect. If you talked more about proper meats, I wouldnt have any issue with the shilling for comparatively 'junk-food' tier bacon. Balance, friend.
Pork is probably the dirtiest/least nutritious meat and bacon is pumped full of nitrates and preservatives usually. Real meat, like game, bison and wild fish are absolutely the best things you could ever put into your body. Even regular beef if thats the best you can afford or locate. Some organ/offal meats too!
Agreed, those other meats are super! And bacon is awesome, the most delicious food on earth in my opinion and that of millions.
Now I'm going to blow your mind out of your skull. Maybe put a towel on the floor.
Ready?
Vegetables are full of nitrates too.
Nitrates in Vegetables and Fruits
Naturally occurring nitrates and nitrites [are] often coupled with nutrients like vitamin C and antioxidants that prevent them from converting into nitrosamines. Vegetables are actually the highest source of natural nitrates, while fruits trail somewhere behind them. The vegetables that are the highest in nitrates include:
Some fruits do contain nitrates, but the amounts are generally low. The fruits that do contain nitrates include:
The report in Aging and Disease points out that approximately 80 to 90 percent of dietary nitrates come from green, leafy vegetables. The second biggest source is drinking water, which provides 15 to 20 percent of daily intake.
Long as you get adequate antioxidant supplementation including Vitamin C (easy to do :), nitrosamine formation from nitrates in bacon is not a problem...compared to the problem of not eating bacon!
https://www.livestrong.com/article/541308-fruits-vegetables-that-are-high-in-nitrates/
Sorry, bro, but you're not dissuading me away from a properly cooked mess of collard greens.
I appreciate the overly long copy&pasted reply, I'm talking about added chemicals to the bacon. Nitrates and nitrites, preservatives (which you glossed over) etc. And the fact its from a really poorly-fed animal which you also glossed over, compared to an animal in the wild or a ruminant that eats mostly grass.
Yes its delicious and im eating some right now with breakfast. Just dont confuse bacon, a side dish/flavoring, with a proper meal of steak or other cut of minimimally-processed animal, when you speak of the merits of a high meat diet. Bacon, unless sourced from someone who makes some more naturally than an Oscar Meyer factory, shouldnt be a highly featured aspect. If you talked more about proper meats, I wouldnt have any issue with the shilling for comparatively 'junk-food' tier bacon. Balance, friend.
"Glossing over" = got other shit to do today, no time to give you a full tutorial on nutrition, sorry friend.
All this talk about bacon, though, is making me hungry. Think I'll go nuke up four or five thick slices of hickory smoked lusciousness. Yum!
Yeah, the nitrate part was like 10% of the issue but 100% of your reply. Do better!
Grass Fed Always