If there are carcinogens created when you roast chicken, what about roasted coffee beans?
Carcinogens in Roasted Coffee?
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In the U.S., though, children have the highest levels of these carcinogens in their bodies. And these chemicals may play a role in our childhood asthma epidemic as well.
Two things seem to do it: meat intake, and the presence of smokers in the home. So, parents need to be educated to take certain precautions: no indoor smoking, and reducing their children’s intake of grilled and smoked meat, so as to decrease their exposure to these carcinogens.
Now, warnings about meat in general are kind of vague, though. Where are these carcinogens found most? Flame-broiled burger, or fried? Pan-fried chicken? Lamb chop, pork chop, or grilled salmon?
Salmon is bad, but for the first time, it seems, chicken beats out fish for carcinogenic contamination.
Chickens aren’t the only things roasted, though. What about coffee beans? Measured for the first time this year, but, they don’t have any muscles, so they only contributed “very insignificant quantities.”
And an earlier study found zero mutagenicity from frying veggie burgers; again, they’re not “muscle meat.” The carcinogen is created from the muscle itself—in fact, it’s been detected in roasted human muscle too, though I don’t know why they even did that study.
To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by veganmontreal.
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- Z. Li, C. D. Sandau, L. C. Romanoff, S. P. Caudill, A. Sjodin, L. L. Needham, and D. G. Patterson Jr. Concentration and prole of 22 urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites in the US population. Environ. Res., 107(3):320-331, 2008.
- N. M. Al-Daghri. Serum polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons among children with and without asthma: correlation to environmental and dietary factors. Int J Occup Med Environ Health, 21(3):211-217, 2008.
- S. Orecchio, V. P. Ciotti, and L. Culotta. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in coffee brew samples: analytical method by GC-MS, profile, levels and sources. Food Chem. Toxicol., 2009.
- Food Chem Toxicol. 1995 Oct;33(10):821-8. Airborne mutagens produced by frying beef, pork and a soy-based food. Thiébaud HP, Knize MG, Kuzmicky PA, Hsieh DP, Felton JS.
Image thanks to lgkiii via Flickr.
In the U.S., though, children have the highest levels of these carcinogens in their bodies. And these chemicals may play a role in our childhood asthma epidemic as well.
Two things seem to do it: meat intake, and the presence of smokers in the home. So, parents need to be educated to take certain precautions: no indoor smoking, and reducing their children’s intake of grilled and smoked meat, so as to decrease their exposure to these carcinogens.
Now, warnings about meat in general are kind of vague, though. Where are these carcinogens found most? Flame-broiled burger, or fried? Pan-fried chicken? Lamb chop, pork chop, or grilled salmon?
Salmon is bad, but for the first time, it seems, chicken beats out fish for carcinogenic contamination.
Chickens aren’t the only things roasted, though. What about coffee beans? Measured for the first time this year, but, they don’t have any muscles, so they only contributed “very insignificant quantities.”
And an earlier study found zero mutagenicity from frying veggie burgers; again, they’re not “muscle meat.” The carcinogen is created from the muscle itself—in fact, it’s been detected in roasted human muscle too, though I don’t know why they even did that study.
To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by veganmontreal.
Please consider volunteering to help out on the site.
- Z. Li, C. D. Sandau, L. C. Romanoff, S. P. Caudill, A. Sjodin, L. L. Needham, and D. G. Patterson Jr. Concentration and prole of 22 urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites in the US population. Environ. Res., 107(3):320-331, 2008.
- N. M. Al-Daghri. Serum polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons among children with and without asthma: correlation to environmental and dietary factors. Int J Occup Med Environ Health, 21(3):211-217, 2008.
- S. Orecchio, V. P. Ciotti, and L. Culotta. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in coffee brew samples: analytical method by GC-MS, profile, levels and sources. Food Chem. Toxicol., 2009.
- Food Chem Toxicol. 1995 Oct;33(10):821-8. Airborne mutagens produced by frying beef, pork and a soy-based food. Thiébaud HP, Knize MG, Kuzmicky PA, Hsieh DP, Felton JS.
Image thanks to lgkiii via Flickr.
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