nitrite

A 2023 lawsuit against Amazon for suicides with sodium nitrite was dismissed but other similar lawsuits continue.

Radiation detectors require some level of technology -- silver nitrite films which fog on exposure, cloud chambers, Geiger counters, exposure badges.

Similar associations were seen for source-specific nitrite intake and were more pronounced for early-onset dementia.

In old school hand curing, almost all the nitrate/nitrite has reacted and is gone by the time you buy the meat.

Bacon and other processed/preserved meats are loaded up with sodium nitrite, which also helps.

Same chemical endpoints in your body as industrially produced nitrite powder.

They're just exploiting labeling rules by selecting very specific nitrite sources.

- meats cuts: some contains sodium nitrite and other nasty additives while others are just raw animals parts.

For curing you really need only salt(or nitrite or sugar).

> If you add nitrite to make a salami instead This would be a Nova Group 3 food.

If you add nitrite to make a salami instead.

I seriously doubt all frozen pizza are upf, the main advantage of frozen food is that you don't have to add nitrite salt or other conservatives.

I could see things like "nitrate" and "nitrite" possibly being a stumbling block for an LLM.

This all has very big "uncured bacon" energy to me (if you didn't already know: there's no such thing; vendors of uncured bacon performatively drive the same chemical nitrite reaction using vegetable extracts).

I believe they meant that it's "unimportant" because (to use your example) sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite actually exist, whereas there's no element with the chemical symbol "Gr".

Nitrite curing is the difference between ham and pork, and is part of the source of American bacon's flavor.