In keeping with recommendations of European Society of P diatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (I' ESPGHAN), the content of nitrates of the small pots is less than 25 mg for 100 g, while in the homemade carrots she can attain 90 mg for 100 g. These contents are guaranteed by the use of logumes making the object of a d dice and specific agriculture.

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Vegetables contain more or less important quantities of nitrates, especially when they are introduced in form of bouillon or of pur e.

Their content in carrots goes until 47,5 mg for 100 g [10]. In the homemade pur e of carrots, she can attain 90 mg for 100 g content of nitrates of the small pots is controlled and limited. According to recommendations of 1 ESPGHAN, she must be less than 25 mg for 100 g.

This norm is applied, in voluntary title, by the producers since 1994. Nitrates were involved in the m th moglobin mie of the new-born baby in the forties. It is an American team which, regarding two cases, raised the hypothesis of a link between this affection and nitrates [11].

They know today that nitrates are not dangerous themselves. The m th moglobinisants agents are nitrites, of products of their reduction.

The transformation of nitrates into nitrites is made under the influence of enzymes and of bacteria. The bacterial proliferation due to the bad stocking of nursing bottles and of preparations home of vegetables appears as essential reason of m th moglobin mie.

However, the role of a reduction of nitrates by the intestinal flora cannot be moved aside. Eight last cases acquired m th moglobin mie brought back in France at the beginning of the years eighty concerned children suffering from sharp diarrhoeia.

Four of them had used for a long time some soup of carrots rich in nitrites. For four other sick, who had a strict diarrhoeia, an endogenous nitrification by bacterial proliferation was recalled [12]. More recently, in Spain, the consumption of pur e of beetroots prepared for home and kept in bad conditions was accused in seven cases of m th moglobin mie of the new-born baby. In this region, beetroots contain 320 on average mg of nitrates for 100 g [13].