Sales of nitrite-cured bacon have dropped significantly as consumers look to avoid the controversial additive over its links ...

Frozen foods often contain preservatives and other ingredients that can potentially be dangerous. Here are several times ...

The range includes four SKUs, including smoked back bacon, smoked streaky bacon, unsmoked back bacon, and unsmoked streaky ...

Nitrite, a ubiquitous stable oxidation byproduct of nitric oxide (NO) metabolism, is now entering the pantheon of signaling biochemical molecules. Nitrite may have the unique properties of a blood and ...

Greater daily exposure to nitrites in food and water may increase the risk for type 2 diabetes, French researchers reported. Compared with those in the lowest tertile of total nitrite exposure (mean 3 ...

Oscar Mayer is touting its new hot dog recipe that uses nitrite derived from celery juice instead of artificial sodium nitrite, which is used to preserve the pinkish colors of processed meats and ...

Researchers from Queen's University Belfast are calling for the ban of nitrite-cured meat after a new study found a substantial link with colorectal cancer. The study saw mice fed nitrite-cured meat ...

In conclusion, these data suggest that inhaled nitrite is a potent and selective vasodilator of pulmonary circulation of the newborn lamb and add support to the idea that nitrite is an NO-dependent ...

A Colorado father, driven by grief, is pushing to make Colorado among the first states in the country to regulate the sale of sodium nitrite. The preservative, used to cure meat, is deadly in its ...

The reversal stems from a February Washington Supreme Court decision in a similar case over sodium nitrite purchases from ...