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Not many people realize this but your morning slices of toast could actually give you cancer. The FSA (Food Standards Agency) have warned for a long time now that your morning slices of toast could be one of the main causes for certain types of cancers. Because when bread is toasted, it's essentially burned, and that burning creates carcinogens on the toast which contains a cancer causing chemical called acrylamide which is a cancer causing toxin that's also found on roasted potatoes too and other vegetables.
Acrylamide is a carcinogen that's made from a reaction between amino acids and the sugars in bread & potatoes when subjected to temps above 120C (248F).
A Professor Guy Poppy from the FSA says that roasted spuds should only be roasted to a light golden colour and and toast should be toasted to the lightest colour acceptable in their risk assessment that indicates at the levels of acrylamide we take in from the food we eat could and that it could be the cause and leading risk of cancer in people today (Perhaps since the age of the electric toaster?) The same research study goes on to say that nobody was even aware of such dangers of eating burnt toast or burnt roast potatoes and other vegetables and things.
And as anyone will tell you, there's nothing like well roasted roast spuds on your Sunday dinner!!
And some people like their toast well done and slightly burned and have done for years!
But could it be, that many cancers in people are caused by the food they've been eating all their life?
Could toast and roast spuds be killing us without even knowing it?
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Lynne
However I think that most likely everything we eat these days is probably causing cancer and doing all sorts of damage to our bodies anyway. Think of all the pesticides and chemicals that is sprayed onto all the crops! And all the hormones that have been given to all the animals we eat.
How about all the chemicals in the water and the air pollution we breath in...
Nothing is pure anymore, not even food that is considered organic. I think that all of this combined plays a big role too. Yes I'm sure that toasted bread could be the cause of many cancers. I'm sure potatoes too.... However I think that most likely everything we eat these days is probably causing cancer and doing all sorts of damage to our bodies anyway. Think of all the pesticides and chemicals that is sprayed onto all the crops! And all the hormones that have been given to all the animals we eat. How about all the chemicals in the water and the air pollution we breath in... Nothing is pure anymore, not even food that is considered organic. I think that all of this combined plays a big role too.
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