These 7 deli meat brands skip nitrates, fillers, and artificial ingredients for cleaner, healthier sandwiches.

Nitrates – widely used preservatives – are found in a variety of foods. Are they good or bad? After all, they can form nitrosamines, recognized carcinogens. A new study uses the metaphor of Dr. Jekyll ...

Nitrates and nitrites are naturally occurring compounds that are found in vegetables and added to processed meats. Nitrates convert to nitrites that can become either beneficial nitric oxide or ...

These days, it seems like there are plenty of things to worry about when it comes to our food. Sugar, trans fat, pesticides…the list of what can do us harm goes on too long. For many people, that list ...

Wisconsin farms applied about 16 million pounds more nitrogen than necessary to their fields in 2022, according to a recently ...

The public utility will route its discharge of brine waste — the byproduct of its water purification treatment — into the city’s sanitary sewer system. The decision comes as the utility continues to ...

Young people are increasingly turning to sodium nitrite and nitrate as a method of suicide after buying the products online, ...

A new report finds nitrate contamination in Wisconsin could cost communities millions and increase health care bills. Nitrate ...