Acrylamide Alert

[liuzhou]

The latest health scare? Is your breakfast toast going to kill you.

The UK Food Standards Agency has reported that

 

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Acrylamide is a chemical that is created when many foods, particularly starchy foods like potatoes and bread, are cooked for long periods at high temperatures, such as when baking, frying, grilling, toasting and roasting. The scientific consensus is that acrylamide has the potential to cause cancer in humans.

 

Guardian article here

 

UK Food Standards Agency article here. This also contains a link to the full research report.

By the way, Chinese people have been telling me for years that anything even slightly charred is highly dangerous. They won't touch it.

[Thanks for the Crepes]

16 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

By the way, Chinese people have been telling me for years that anything even slightly charred is highly dangerous. They won't touch it.

 

They surely wouldn't like the way I cook my steak over charcoal then. Burnt on the outside and red rare on the inside. Pittsburgh.

 

I also read this years ago about grilled foods and french fries, but that did not alter my course as I happen to love both of these foods. The current science may even be good on this one, but food cooked over wood and fried potatoes are such a long tradition, I tend to put it down to the "Sleeper" syndrome of evil food of the moment. 

[Anna N]

"...has the potential to cause cancer.."  I ask you is there anything that doesn't have the potential? My guess is only those things that have not been tested yet.  Carry on. 

[liuzhou]

Give it a couple of years. They'll be telling us we should only ever eat burnt toast.

I think I'll write a burnt toast cookbook. Get in early.
 

"Burnt toast. 100 ways to burn bread - Available from all good book stores now"

I can feel fame and fortune on the horizon.

(4,444th  post  - damn there is nothing more unlucky in China!)

Edited January 23, 2017 by liuzhou (log)

[GlorifiedRice]

Well, I know from many years of dieting that TOASTING bread changes it somehow and if you eat toasted bread on a diet it is different as opposed to plain bread. Some people have noticed blood sugar reading differences after eating toast as opposed to untoast. On the Victoria Principal diet we were only allowed TOAST.

[liuzhou]

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[Porthos]

Working on the cancer one delicious bite at a time.