Determining Nitrate and Nitrite Content in Beverages, Fruits, Vegetables, and Stews Marketed in Arak, Iran

Table 1

Mean levels and range (mg kg⁻¹) for nitrate and nitrite in some stews.

Kind of stew	Samples	Nitrate		Nitrite
		Mean	Min–Max	Mean	Min–Max
Gheimeh stew	23	20.97^a	6.82–56	19.99^a	1.43–58
Eggplant stew	19	39.2^a	2.3–116	18.17^a	<LOD–50.4
Ghormeh stew	25	105.45^b	15–186.6	23.8^a	2.1–86.5
Celery stew	15	136.76^c	56–218	38.23^a	10.6–87.5
Fesenjan stew	20	42.26^a	10.54–106.5	18.43^b	3.1–36

Least squares means within the same row without a common superscript differ ( < 0.05).