If you've ever checked the label on deli meat, you've probably seen the words "nitrate-free" or "no nitrates added" plastered across the packaging. Sounds like a good thing if it means no ...

Researchers explain how nitrate from farming and fish ponds moves through water and pollutes freshwater lakes.

Richard is the author of two books: The Mediterranean Diet: Health and Science and More Healthy Years - Why a Mediterranean Diet is best for you and for the planet. Many of us know that we should ...

Nitrate has many physiological functions: (1) brain: preventing stroke and Alzheimer’s disease; (2) cardiovascular: lowering blood pressure, alleviating ischemia-reperfusion injury, preventing ...

Mike Castellano is professor of agronomy at Iowa State University and leads the Iowa Nitrogen Initiative. Matt Helmers is professor agricultural and biosystems engineering and director of the Iowa ...