Checking the amount of nitrates within food helps to ensure that the amounts present are suitable and safe for consumption. Based on the "British Journal of Cancer", high amounts of nitrates may cause gastric cancers. Also the well-admired "Journal associated with Nerve organs Transmission" states that they might play a part in degenerative neurologic illnesses. Exposure to high amounts of nitrate has additionally demonstrated an ability to trigger the deadly bloodstream condition methemogloninemia, which could eventually lead to hypoxia, causing the natural flow of oxygen to the body to be cut off. The items you will need to check foods for nitrate are:
* Nitrate-test-strip package
* Mortar as well as pestle
* Sodium-acetate solution
* Filter paper
* Scale used to weigh food items

1. Check juicy vegetables and fruits with the nitrate test strips. Divide the fresh fruit or veggie in two halves and put a nitrate strip on top of one of the halves. Join the two halves back together, covering the strip within completely for about thirty seconds. Separate the halves after this time has passed and remove the test strip. You can now refer back to the chart packaged with the nitrate test kit to ascertain the nitrate level.

2. Check less-juicy vegetables and fruit, (for example tubers and celery) similarly. Allow the test strip to remain between the two halves for one minute instead of thirty seconds this time. Get rid of as well as make reference to the colour graph incorporated with the actual check package to find out nitrate amounts. Separate halves and compare results with chart packaged with the nitrate test kit to ascertain the nitrate level.

3. To test meats, they will first need to be broken down before testing. Using of the food scale, separate around 5 grams of meat for use in the test. Put it into the mortar and then chop it into very small pieces with the pestle. After meat is minced, include 8 milliliters of sodium-acetate solution and stir for one minute. Thrust the meat over the filter paper and gather the filtrate back to the mortar. Test strip should then be dipped into the filtrate for 30 seconds. Take out the strip and refer to the color chart to ascertain the nitrate level. Suitable quantities of nitrate will differ depending on the type of meat being tested.