Re:California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
by tptacek on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:01AM
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Importantly: you are unlikely to avoid significant acrylamide production in home cooking. It's the potatoes that need the warning, not the chips.
Re:California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
by rarrrrrr on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:18AM
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My CIA cookbook begins potato recipes with first blanching them in water prior to roasting, sauté, etc, which is apparently an effective mitigation.
Re:California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
by grenoire on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:58AM
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I was not aware of the existence of a Culinary Institute of America, and assumed it was the Central Intelligence Agency.
"Why would the CIA have a cookbook..?"
Re:California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
by tptacek on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:27AM
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My understanding --- which is casual and mostly comes from Dave Arnold rants on Cooking Issues --- is that acrylamide is produced any time you brown a potato. So: you can eat boiled or mashed potatoes, sure, but if you roast them you're exposed.
This is equally true of meat, and other vegetables.
You essentially can't avoid acrylamide if you cook. Labeling it is silly.
Re:California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
by maxerickson on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:02PM
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Potatoes are worse than other foods because they have asparagine and starch together.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/d...
So foods with less starch and/or less protein won't end up with as much acrylamide.
There's other carcinogens generated by high temperature cooking though, for example, https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/d...
from http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Lawsuit-over-potato-ch...
The acrylamide level of the potato increases as it browns. It appears the acrylamide level of these particular chips is therefore unavoidable.