Hey! Leave my relationship with Grandma Pogue alone! She takes special care of my liver every night.
Yum.
Fried Potatoes: French fries and potato chips contain a toxin called acrylamide, a chemical used to produce plastics and dyes. Acrylamide causes DNA damage, which can result in reproductive damage and cancer.
When starchy foods are heated to high temperatures, they spontaneously form acrylamide, even though none was present in the raw ingredients. Both American and European scientists agree that the foods with the highest levels of acrylamide include french fries and potato chips.
Additionally, deep fried foods are high in liver-toxic lipid peroxides (rancid fats, which are immuno-suppressive and damage liver cell membranes) and trans-fatty acids (which suppress the production of PGE1, an important liver-protecting prostaglandin).
Thanks petercooper.
Indeed, but the toxicity of acrylamide can be immediately ameliorated by the liberal addition of an aggregate of high-fructose corn syrup, sodium chloride, and the extract of the highly acidic tomato, which goes by the commercial name derived from Southeast Asian Fish Sauce, which the late nineteenth century colonial imperialists co-opted, and bowdlerized its traditional nomenclature. This life-giving substance was further exploited by the ancestors of the current Secretary of State’s wife, and has become a staple in American Cuisine. I am, of course, referring to Ketchup.
/satire...but I am sure you already KNEW that! LOL.
Everything is toxic in sufficient ammounts. Ingest too much water, and it will kill you.
The dose makes the poison. Many chemicals are beneficial in small amounts and toxic as the dose increases.
Without knowing what dose produces toxic results, claims of toxicity are worthless.
Hey! Leave my relationship with Grandma Pogue alone! She takes special care of my liver every night.
But potatoes aren't edible unless they are heated to high temperatures. Does this mean we have to give up potatoes altogether?
We all gotta die from something. Unless Jesus returns first.
French fries are worth a little risk.
Eat healthy, exercise, die anyway.
Gosh, you sure take the fun out of going to the Fair...;-)
-JT
Thanks for the info on potato’s.
I was just reading about bread and the article mentioned bread being starchy and heated at high temps. Would the same danger factors be involved in bread as with potato’s?