Pan-fried chips
When it comes to overcooking foods, particularly meats, we can definitely say that it might lead to carcinogens. As a 2020 article stated, cooking meat at higher temperatures could create carcinogenic PAHs but also heterocyclic amines, known as HCAs.
These two substances could increase the risk of cancer by altering the DNA of your cells. You are way more likely to overcook foods when you cook at higher temperatures, such as when grilling, barbecuing, or even pan-frying.
The Food and Drug Administration also explained that overcooking starchy foods, such as potatoes, could increase acrylamide formation. If you want to stay away from developing carcinogens that might develop from high-heat cooking, consider using other cooking methods that are more recommended and less damaging, such as poaching, pressure cooking, baking, roasting, and even slow cooking.
6 thoughts on “6 Cancer Causing Snacks You Should Avoid”
It makes me VERY Angry thatitdered fish was mentioned!! People can eat completely healthily without contributing to the death and suffering of animals.
Lighten up Colleen.
If God didn’t want us to eat animals why did he make them out of meat? OR, the non-religious take on this: Why are our teeth made to rip meat apart. The design of our human teeth show that we are omnivores. That means we were designed or evolved to eat meat as well as vegetables. Animals don’t have to suffer. The solution is to kill them as quickly and humanely as possible. The fact is that most food providing meat animals today would never have been born if we humans didn’t eat meat. That is what they are raised for.
Megan. At age 79 and having eaten all the proscribed foods except yogurt in great quantities and remaining incredibly healthy you just sucked the air out of the room.
Wow! This is a problem! I can’t eat any more of my favorites! That is a mental breakdown to stop these foods!
I feel that it’s all about moderation. Eating the occasional sweetened yogurt or side of fries isn’t means to panic to ban them 100 percent.