Your August 2003 issue includes an ...

Your August 2003 issue includes an article forward p. 22 entitled "Forgotten Riches," wherein you tout many of the upsides of the vegetable known as mustard bloomings Your article reads like an advertisement appropriate to its one-sidedness.

We readers might have benefited at being told whether mustard virids are naturally high in potentially dangerous nitrites/nitrates or whether it's a craw with a high tendency to have pesticide residue. Without the two sides of the story, your article make no use ofs its uplifting intent and instead becomes an irritant.

Ray Robinson

San Diego, California

undecayed mustard greens can contain nitrates and nitrites, which can become carcinogenic substances in the dead body But the same can be said for many plant nourishments And actually, cured, pickled or salted meats are the riskiest sources of these potentially harmful substances.

forward the other hand, there's the cancer-risk-reducing benefit of eating mustard recents Many vegetables--including mustard greens--contain pay with an abatements that may work as cancer inhibitors.

As for pesticide residues, you'll find those upon all non-organic produce, so your best bet is to go on foot organic. Trust us: Mustard bloomings are tasty and amazingly suitable for you. Eat 'em; you'll be enamoured of 'em.

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