Can eating burnt toast give you cancer?!


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Can eating burnt toast give you cancer?


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ok i learned about this in environmental chemistry at university - any incompletely burnt carbon (like charcoal or burnt toast) contains cancer-causing molecules called PPKs - you get them coming out car exhausts too! They're everywhere so you can't avoid them anyway. I avoid the burnt bits or scrape them off same as most people but don't worry too much - regularly eating it might increase your chance of getting throat cancer (i think toast was highlighted a few years ago cos it's scratchy n mbe ppks will get into a scratch in your throat lol!) but i really don't think it's anything to be worried about - just about everything increases your risk of gettin cancer - you've still gotta live your life! the best you can do is prob eat pleanty of fresh fruit and veg - the antioxidants are the best thing to help prevent cancer and will do you a lot more good than avoiding burnt toast! hope that helps xx




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