Editorial: Dietary nitrate: friend or foe
Liezhou Zhong, Nicola P. Bondonno, Mario Siervo, Catherine P. Bondonno · 2024
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Liezhou Zhong and co-authors open a 2024 editorial asking whether dietary nitrate is a friend or a foe. Nitrate comes mainly from vegetables, with smaller shares from meat, where it is added as a preservative, and from drinking water. The same intake can feed two unlike paths in the body.
On one path, nitrate turns step by step into nitric oxide, a gas that helps blood vessels and other key functions, drawing much research interest. On the other, nitrate and nitrite can help form nitroso compounds that may cause cancer, a risk flagged by an international cancer agency under set conditions. Regulators have lately tightened nitrate use in cheese and processed meats. The editorial frames a live debate where source, dose, and body conditions decide which face of nitrate shows.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Liezhou Zhong, Nicola P. Bondonno, Mario Siervo, Catherine P. Bondonno |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |