Tag: Dietary nitrites

While healthy urine contains harmless nitrates from our diet, the presence of nitrites in urine is an abnormal finding and is not a direct result of the food you ate. Instead, this is a strong indicator of a bacterial infection in the urinary tract. Bacteria convert the harmless dietary nitrates into nitrites, revealing an underlying health issue.

According to decades of research, vitamin C is a potent inhibitor of nitrosamine formation in acidic conditions. This ability is so effective that it has become standard practice to use vitamin C in processed meats. But does vitamin C reduce nitrosamines in all scenarios?