How to make toast.
Hamlet77
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So yet again a government department is now interfering in our lives. The Food Standards Agency is telling us we should only lightly cook toast to reduce cancer. Well I'm sorry when the FSA starts telling us how we have to have our toast then that's taking it too far.
It's not as if the FSA is doing such a great job everywhere else. They just preach to us about 5 a day or is it now 7 a day, just remember though that can't be just fruit anymore, in fact it should really be 5 veg a day.
Got caught out with the horse meat as well didn't they. Now I'm sorry for a government department to be called the Food Standards Agency and then mess up that particular bit of food standards then they should be worrying about that sort of thing happening again rather than telling me how I have to cook my toast.
BTW I prefer my toast light brown, but come on have they nothing better to do. If that's a yes then they need to have funding cut or told to find something serious to do.
It's not as if the FSA is doing such a great job everywhere else. They just preach to us about 5 a day or is it now 7 a day, just remember though that can't be just fruit anymore, in fact it should really be 5 veg a day.
Got caught out with the horse meat as well didn't they. Now I'm sorry for a government department to be called the Food Standards Agency and then mess up that particular bit of food standards then they should be worrying about that sort of thing happening again rather than telling me how I have to cook my toast.
BTW I prefer my toast light brown, but come on have they nothing better to do. If that's a yes then they need to have funding cut or told to find something serious to do.
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AFAIK there's always been long standing advice that it's not a good idea to eat burnt food. The risk of BBQing meat to the extent of causing carcinogens for example. I must admit though I'd never heard of acrylamides until this morning. I personally like that they give us the latest research findings on things - good or bad so we can look into it more and it at least gives us the choice to adapt things. It does seem this has been known about for a while though.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/acrylamide-fact-sheet
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/acrylamide.html
'Everything' causes cancer nowadays if you believe every 'expert' opinion you can find on the internet or on the news. I'm well past the stage of taking any notice. I'll continue to eat processed meats every day, have as much artificially sweetened foods as I want, etc. If they slightly increase my risk of cancer, so be it. We've all got to die of something and it's simply not worth the worry IMO.
Idiots.
In the evening I put marmite on my toast so that is a very dark brown.
Does this advice mean I can only have toast in the morning?
I doubt it. Nor do they actually care. Most likely they're just releasing any old rubbish piece of 'advice' in an attempt to try to justify their existence... ;-)
No, what it means is that you should gnaw on a raw turnip in the morning and at night.
However, there is more to come that will still affect most of us. New legal obligations will come into force later this year which food businesses, (caterers, manufacturers, hospitality, etc) will need to follow. Acrylamide isn't something new, it's an issue that's been discussed for years worldwide, and of course at EU level. Towards the end of last year the EU decided not set maximum limits for acrylamide in the contaminants in food regulations. Instead, benchmark levels have been set which will be implemented via hygiene regulations. This places a legal obligation on industry to follow certain guidelines. Industry trade associations are currently preparing guidance which will take into account the new benchmark values. So whilst we can still make our patatoes and toast as brown as we like at home; from later on this year you may start to see a difference in how certain foods are cooked when eating out or when buying from the shops.
No agency is compelling you to do anything. They've done research on burnt carbohydrate and reported their results. What should they have done?
It is completely down to you whether you heed the advice, as it is... well... just advice.
Stuff yourselves with char-grilled hovis and maris pipers; no-one will care.