nitrates

A number of you are now reading a really interesting article by Chuck "Chuckie" Dinerstein, our beloved director of medicine, about how beets might be useful in lowering your blood pressure.
“Cancer alert over rocket: Trendy salad leaves exceed safe levels of carcinogenic nitrates in one in EVERY ten samples.”
Whole Foods chemists, an incongruity if ever there were one, must have a helluva job. They somehow must explain to suckers customers how the same chemical can be both good and bad for you.