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A comment on US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Other Foods. Parent comment

Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by mgraczyk on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:02PM (#42719058)
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.

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

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

https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/62/15/4339/508983...

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.

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by paulryanrogers on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:29PM (#42719316)
Food isn't sold burnt from store shelves. Of course people may 'toast' it to unsafe levels. That's an educational issue.
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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by mgraczyk on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:35PM (#42719358)
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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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by Aloisius on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:28PM (#42719835)
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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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by refurb on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:39PM (#42720386)
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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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by WrongAssumption on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:48PM (#42721361)
I sure can get it in a restaurant.
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