Roasted coffee beans contain small quantities of a compound called acrylamide. In high amounts, acrylamide can be harmful. There are even concerns that acrylamide in coffee may also cause cancer.

That acrylamide is present in French fries is information you might choose to forget, like mercury in tuna. Recently I was reminded of this inconvenient fact by an article on genetically modified ...

Dietary levels of acrylamide, the chemical compound and known carcinogen naturally produced from cooking food, cannot be shown to pose any health risk to humans, according to an expert panel organized ...

French fry lovers, beware! You may be exposed to a chemical more commonly associated with heavy industry than crispy fried potatoes. Fortunately, researchers are finding ways to reduce that exposure.

Many of us think of coffee as a morning essential, however, there has been a long running debate between California regulators, courts, business, and consumer advocates regarding whether coffee must ...

Products of the Maillard reaction are responsible for much of the flavour and colour generated during baking and roasting. An important associated reaction is the Strecker degradation of amino acids ...

Air fried food has a plethora of health benefits over traditional deep frying. For starters, it helps substantially decrease the total fat and calories of your favorite "fried" food fare! However, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Since at least August 2023, Facebook users have shared a warning about the purported dangers of McDonald's ...

Just four years ago, on the Thursday morning of 25 April 2002, millions of people awoke to newspaper and TV reports that their breakfast might be laced with a deadly chemical. They hadn’t been ...

The Maillard reaction is arguably the world’s most beloved chemical process. Cooks learned long ago that raw, unappetizing ingredients such as potatoes and grains can be turned into toasty treats with ...

One week after proposing the removal of trans fats from food, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is targeting another fattening – and potentially harmful – ingredient: acrylamide. Acrylamide ...