According to the Food Standard Agency (FSA ... health and could lower the risk of having a stroke. The high natural nitrate content found in beetroot juice, for example, has been found to ...

In many places throughout the Central Valley, intense agricultural practices add over 740,000 pounds of nitrogen from fertilizers, combined with the almost 200 million pounds of manure produced daily ...

Research has linked high nitrate consumption over long periods to stomach ... confined animal feeding operations, animal feedlots and food processing facilities. Those sources are also the main ...