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Nitrites, nitrates that can convert into nitrites, NDMA, and NDEA, are all found in vegetables. Does this make vegetable consumption posisbly cancerous? If not, why are nitrites on processed meats more cancerous than nitrites on vegetables?

by /u/mavsman221 in /r/askscience

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