There isn’t a significant difference between regular bacon and “uncured” bacon. They both contain nitrate salts. The only difference is that the uncured bacon gets it’s nitrate from celery instead of a nitrate salt, either mined or manufactured. It’s still cured but food laws don’t allow food that doesn’t contain actual nitrate salts to be called cured. Two ribs of celery (healthy right?) contains 100x’s of times more nitrate than a whole pound of bacon. Vegetables naturally contain nitrates, a vital part of our body’s required chemical make up and they are crucial to many of our bodily functions. They are actually manufactured in your body if you’re healthy. The cure for a heart attack is a nitric oxide pill. We breathe a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen and need both although oxygen is the less of the mixture we cannot breathe pure oxygen. Our body’s cannot function without nitrates, it could even be considered an essential nutrient or at least a compound that’s essential for your biological function 
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The whole “nitrates are bad” is right in there with saturated fats, salt, MSG, and the cholesterol-cancer myths surrounding those foods. The evidence that these are bad was bad science based on weak evidence. If you really are afraid of eating nitrates you had better give up most vegetables and stick with a carnivore WOE without anything but fresh meat, which will also has some nitrate because of the biological functions of the animal you are eating.
And if you want to talk MSG for a moment there’s no such thing as a glutamate salt allergy, the whole MSG scare was a racist slur against the Chinese started in the 60’s by an ignorant NYC doctor who wrote an article for the NYT based on total anecdotal speculation, no scientific studies at all. If you think you have an MSG allergy and were eating just about anything you buy in a grocery store you have been eating boatloads of the MSG, here’s a list of the names that are used in the food industry to hide the “wicked MSG” content in food from you.
As you can see there is MSG in Campbell’s Soup, canned chili, spice mixes, Doritos, Flavored Potato Chips, sausages, etc. not to mention the naturally occurring glutamates in meat, eggs, cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes, beets, seaweed and seafood, and many more “natural” foods that people who claim to have MSG allergies eat regularly without any reactions. I would challenge anyone who claims to have an MSG allergy to go in a grocery store and look at any savory food or snack they’ve eaten and not find something from this list in a food that have been consuming for years without a reaction.
Sorry about the rant, but knowledge is power and it’s time to consider the truth instead of weak science like LFHC being healthy. If nitrates caused colon cancer we’d all have it, and if people were really sensitive to glutamic salts (sodium and glutamic acid , an essential amino acid) they would get a reaction from most foods natural or processed. 
