Comment by mgraczyk

Comment by mgraczyk 3 days ago

Yes, whole grains cause cancer if you make them into bread and toast the bread. The evidence is much stronger than for Red dye No. 3.

Strawberries are also linked to cancer, because they contain sugar.

Almost all natural foods are linked to cancer. The important question is, how large is the risk?

Dark toast is obviously much riskier than Red dye No. 3. We should think about that when we consider what to ban.

Food isn't sold burnt from store shelves. Of course people may 'toast' it to unsafe levels. That's an educational issue.

mgraczyk 3 days ago

Untrue, you can buy burnt bread at most grocery stores. Go to the bakery, look at the ends. Many will have burnt tips.
Also: I've never bought this, but I just found this premade product, which is sold in my grocery store and is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.197151007.html?...

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refurb 3 days ago

A good example is the cancer causing aflatoxin on peanuts.
https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...
You could be enjoying some all natural peanuts and be exposing yourself to a highly carcinogenic byproduct of a fungus that grows on them.
Hell, people were doing that for millennia until some scientists actually discovered it.

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Aloisius 3 days ago

Acrylamide is in all baked bread. It's formed during high temperature cooking - like baking.
Toasting just increases the amount present.

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WrongAssumption 3 days ago

I sure can get it in a restaurant.

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