Cured Meat Products Without Direct Addition of Nitrate or Nitrite What Are the Issues
Food Preservation
The Saga of Sodium Nitrite Nitrite and nitrate have been used for some 5000 years or more to cure and preserve meat 1891 – first publication showing that.
3. Curing agents Nitrite (sodium or potassium)….. and sometimes nitrate – functions only by conversion to nitrite first – useful only in dried products.
FOOD PRESERVATION
FOOD PRESERVATION. Food preservation frees people from total dependence on geography and climate in providing for their nutritional needs and wants.
The Saga of Sodium Nitrite
