Anti-hypertensive diets, such as the DASH diet, typically contain high levels of nitrates, which are first reduced to nitrite in the saliva, as detected in saliva testing, prior to forming nitric oxide.
- NitrateNitrates are produced by a number of species of nitrifying bacteria in the natural environment using ammonia or urea as a source of nitrogen and source of free energy.
- NitrateNitrite can be reduced to nitric oxide or ammonia by many species of bacteria.
- NitriteIn some countries, cured-meat products are manufactured without nitrate or nitrite, and without nitrite from vegetable source.
- NitriteLiquid ammonia is an ionising solvent, although less so than water, and dissolves a range of ionic compounds, including many nitrates, nitrites, cyanides, thiocyanates, metal cyclopentadienyl complexes and metal bis(trimethylsilyl)amides.
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