Are Nitrites in Bacon Bad for You? - CHOW Tip

If you drink orange juice while eating bacon, the vitamin C helps neutralize some of the ill effects of nitrites on your system. (But please, we're not doctors. If you want to eat bacon all day every day, you should talk to a physician.)

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Sodium Nitrite is in just about every kind of bacon out there. It's a preservative. It also gives it kind of a salty flavor and it keeps your bacon looking nice and pink. The problem with the nitrites is they can actually be cancer causing if you have too many of them so one trick you might want to try is have a glass of orange juice with your bacon. The citric acid in the orange juice will actually offset the damage that can be caused by the nitrites.