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Issue No. 120: Are nitrates in cured meats dangerous?

February 24, 2020 Mo Frechette / by Mo Frechette

People have been curing meats for millennia. For most of that time, no one understood the chemistry behind the process. But for centuries before refrigeration was invented, even if folks didn’t know why curing worked, they knew that once it was done—a process that could take a few weeks to a few years, depending on […]

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