this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
32 points (97.1% liked)

Aotearoa / New Zealand

1653 readers
3 users here now

Kia ora and welcome to !newzealand, a place to share and discuss anything about Aotearoa in general

Rules:

FAQ ~ NZ Community List ~ Join Matrix chatroom

 

Banner image by Bernard Spragg

Got an idea for next month's banner?

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
32
Nitrate contamination map of New Zealand launched by Greenpeace (www.rnz.co.nz)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Here's the actual map: https://maps.greenpeace.org/maps/aotearoa/know-your-nitrate/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They form from curing meat in super high levels for a long time. If the implication is that we can't consume nitrates with meat, we should probably be avoiding combining vegetables and meat in the same meal.

Perhaps this just reflects low inhake of vitamin c - which prevents nitrosamines from forming

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Confirmed in above paper:

Espejo-Herrera (2016) found when diets were high in vitamin C there was no statistically significant increase in risk of colon cancer from elevated nitrate levels in water

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Processed meat is one of very few foods on the WHOs list of things that almost definitely cause cancer.

Interesting that vitamin C protects against nitrates. Does that mean we should eat our (high in vitamin C) vegetables with meat?