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Nitrate in vegetables - Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food chain

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SUMMARY Nitrate is a naturally occurring compound that is part of the nitrogen cycle, as well as an approved food additive. It plays an important role in the nutrition and function of plants. Nitrate is an important component of vegetables due to its potential for accumulation; this can be affected by a number of biotic and abiotic factors. Higher levels of nitrate tend to be found in leaves whereas lower levels occur in seeds or tubers. Thus leaf crops such as lettuce and spinach generally have higher nitrate concentrations. Human exposure to nitrate is mainly exogenous through the consumption of vegetables, and to a lesser extent water and other foods. Nitrate is also formed endogenously. In contrast exposure to its metabolite nitrite is mainly from endogenous nitrate conversion.

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How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Nitrate in vegetables - Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food chain. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2903/j.efsa.2008.689
The paper
(EFSA), E. F. S. A. (2008). Nitrate in vegetables - Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food chain. EFSA Journal. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2008.689

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.