The US potato industry brings in US$240 million annually, and demand for taters in all their wonderful processed shapes and sizes is year-round. As such, a certain amount of stock in season is sent to cold storage to supply the demand. However, thanks to a normal biological function in the root vegetable, low temperatures trigger a mechanism that converts starches to sugars. When processed, these tubers that have experienced cold-induced sweetening (CIS) appear darker when cooked.
Unfortunately, it’s more than potato-skin deep, as this darkened chip is a crispy red flag – it indicates elevated levels of acrylamide, a chemical that has been associated with increased cancer risk due to its carcinogenic properties.
Its an assumed carcinogen as far as I can tell. There are no studies showing it causing cancer in humans, but they presume it might be a carcinogen due to the effect on rodents.
However, a large number of epidemiologic studies… in humans have found no consistent evidence that dietary acrylamide exposure is associated with the risk of any type of cancer Source
So does anything that’s browned when cooking.
Til just about anything can be linked to an increase of cancer.
Being alive probably poses the greatest risk.
Living near rocks vs deep topsoil.
Buying anything from California will also teach you this.
(They put cancer warning stickers on everything, for anyone not familiar)
Well no wonder republicans hate California. They probably ONLY see California DOING this, so they think California is CAUSING the cancer. It makes sense when you realize how stupid they are.
They put cancer warning plaques on apartment buildings.
TBH it’s mostly stuff that you know you shouldn’t be having. Food additives, fried or blackened foods, heavily processed foods, etc. Generally stuff you’d consider unhealthy for other reasons too.
These days most people understand a healthy diet is a Mediterranean style one lean meats, fruits and veggies, whole grains, some healthy fat like olive oil or avocados. They just don’t want to do that.
Acrylamide is also a persistent neurotoxin, meaning that it can’t be flushed out of your body and any acrylamide that you collect in your body will just continue to collect
Acrylamide is a nasty neurotoxin. Look at old protein biochemists and their hands all shake from years of making SDS-PAGE gels without gloves.
That’s ok, I’ll just eat lead paint chips as well and the two of them can fight each other.
That is how it works right?
I believe cancer can evolve to kill other cancers. A sort of anti cancer, I believe.
I’m sorry, but this is wrong.
Acrylamide is classified as “probable carcinogens”. Not as a “known carcinogen”.
The thing is more studies should be done. Even a probable should be enough to trigger that but it is to big business. Below more classifications:
- The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifies acrylamide as a “probable human carcinogen.”
- The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) has classified acrylamide as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.”
- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)classifies acrylamide as “likely to be carcinogenic to humans.”
But non of these classify it as a “known carcinogen” like your title claims. Acording to rule 1, posts must be facts.
So chemical that has been associated with increased cancer risk due to its carcinogenic properties?
There is probably less cumbersome way to put it, but you shouldn’t use “known carcinogen” since that is an official (or at least widely used) classifcation that the chemical is NOT in.
til chips contain a chemical that has carcinogenic properties, acrylamide ?
Known to the State of California.
Well dang. The cape cod dark russets are my favorite.
