Can overcooked toast cause cancer?

burnt toast

According to the Food Standards Agency (FSA), overcooking toast and other starchy foods may cause cancer.

Overcooking bread, chips, potatoes and parsnips releases a chemical called Acrylamide, which could cause cancer. Acrylamide is produced when starchy foods are roasted, fried or grilled for too long at high temperatures.

It should be noted that, so far, this link has not been proven in humans.

The FSA also recommends that potatoes and parsnips should not be refrigerated because, at low temperatures, sugar levels are inclined to rise in vegetables, which could increase the amount of acrylamide produced during cooking.

acrylamide chart

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Good Grief Leon, is there anything left thats good for us that we have grown up with?

My toast was always burnt when young, as dad mostly did it on the toasting fork in front of the fire, and our roast potatoes were done to a crisp..

I am more concerned with my outside shell, which is shriveling up under the raging sun...that will probably kill me off first...

Ha ha ha, LOL your report made me laugh out loud alright cranky, but yes you are so correct, the same things at our house.

Its a wonder you have lasted this long Cranky and Polly! haha

Burnt toast with lashings of butter is delicious.  Caramelised, crisp, brown roast parsnips, potatoes, pumpkin are the best. I remember it wasn't that long ago we were told not to eat butter. 

Yes, along with a nice char-grilled steak!

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Heard this many times - we always just scraped off the burnt bits and smothered it with butter.

I dont do this since heard but still take toast with my butter.

PS in spite of their lowering of the bench marks, I am still within the range which confirms the old and still used saying - eat fish 3 times a week and can eat all dairy etc in moderation - not that my butter use is moderate!

 

 

Heard this many times - we always just scraped off the burnt bits and smothered it with butter.

I dont do this since heard but still take toast with my butter.

PS in spite of their lowering of the bench marks, I am still within the range which confirms the old and still used saying - eat fish 3 times a week and can eat all dairy etc in moderation - not that my butter use is moderate!

 

 

You name it, and there will always be some job-justifying 'scientist' who says it will cause cancer. It's funny, though, they never say anything about the chemical additives in our food and water. Makes you wonder what the real agenda is.

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