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Re:NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his publi... by valicord on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:51PM (#40057668)
> it does not seem like frying in oil magically turns healthy potatoes into cancer daemons

well, akshually... https://www.fda.gov/food/process-contaminants-food/acrylamid...

however the main concern with fried potatoes is cardiovascular, not cancerogenic.

Re:NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his publi... by dekhn on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @06:02PM (#40057780)
frying, roasting, and baking all produce acrylamides. There's a paper from sweden that shows you can even find acrylamides in bread that was cooked at standard temp.

The story of frying and cardio is still ongoing; I've seen several full reversals in the public health field over the past 30 years. It's really painful being a quantitative physical biologist watching the press around papers that when carefully inspected provide little to no evidence supporting their position.