While I’m going to keep right on eating french fries despite their alleged health risks, I feel it my duty to keep the more health conscious reader(s) abreast of the latest research on the healthification of french fries. I’ve posted about acrylamide in fries before, you may remember it from such posts as:
Acrylamide…delicious but deadly.
and
Mmmm…Sciencey
Well the latest research, by a Chinese team, has shown that…
Soaking potato pieces in a bamboo extract prior to cooking can limit the development of acrylamide—a potential carcinogen—in french fries.
That’s all well and good, but I think Confucius was onto something when he said ‘Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without’ and…’man who go to bed with itchy butt wake up with smelly fingers‘.
Disposition: complete indifference
please tell me you didn’t find this in pubmed!!
Nope, found it on the ‘internet’.
I’ve just returned from Louisiana. There, if it doesn’t feature life threatening levels of acrylamides, it isn’t on the menu.
G.
Louisiana = life threatening