A synthetic method of benazolin ethyl was present with ochloroaniline, ammounium rhodanide, sulfuryl chloride, sodium nitrite and ethyl chloroacetate as the raw materials.
During heat processing of the meat, a small portion of the additive sodium nitrite is suspected to turn into the cancerous nitrosamines like the earlier mentioned NDMA.
In fact, celery juice which has very high concentrations of nitrate, and is used to make the all natural “no added nitrates or nitrites” processed meat.
So, whether your bacon contains inorganic sodium nitrite or all natural nitrate from celery juice, it's not getting turned into the cancerous nitrosamines in your body.
Bacon, ham, salami, sausages and hot dogs contain chemicals that are harmful for us, like nitrates and nitrites that can damage the DNA in our digestive system and lead to cancer.
In fact, in the body, there is a cycle where nitrate is turned into nitrite and nitrite is turned into nitric oxide then nitric oxide is turned back into nitrate.
A kindergarten teacher in the central province of Henan was detained-accused of adding sodium nitrite, which can be toxic in large doses, to the meal boxes of at least 23 pupils late last month.
As the paper explains, nitrate and nitrite have been shown to be good for blood pressure, mitochondrial efficiency, exercise performance, and have a therapeutic effect on pulmonary hypertension.
At first they used a different chemical called amyl nitrite, a compound that we now know has a nitrite group that dilates blood vessels and lowers blood pressure.