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I had a question from someone that wanted to know,

is it okay to consume hot dogs with the celery juice instead of the nitrates?

So I want to just talk about that for a second.

Now, what are they put celery juice in hot dogs and other processed meats?

It's one way to provide nitrates, and the reason why they use nitrates in certain foods

in meats, hot dogs, as a curative agent, it helps to preserve that meat,

and it just so happens that celery has high amounts of nitrates.

But the USDA does not recognize celery juice as a curative agent,

so they call it an anti-microbial.

So this person that asked the question just wanted to know,

should I use celery juice as my source of nitrates, which is a non-synthetic source,

is that healthier than the actual sodium nitrate?

There is some research that I found that when you consume delimits or hot dogs commercial with

sodium nitrate, it does turn into certain compounds, like secondary cyclic amines,

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