T. Kang
2006
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Progress in Modern Biomedicine
Abstract
Sodium nitrite is an essential curing ingredient used to stabilize the curing red color, enhance flavor, act as an antioxidant, and prevent the outgrowth of Clostridium botulinum which produces botulism and causes food poisonous. However, nitrites and nitrates may cause methemoglobinemia and other illness, and may react with certain amines to form carcinogenic nitrosamines. In this paper, it has been reviewed that nitrites reacted to the microorganism,curing ingredients and other factors which influenced nitrite bacteriostasis,also including advanced research and future development on nitrite bacteriostasis mechanisms in cured meat.