Acrylamide

Could taurine help reduce acrylamide in foods?

17-May-2010 By Stephen Daniells

Taurine, the ingredient most famously linked to energy drinks, may help reduce levels of acrylamide in foods, suggests new research from Korea.

Acrylamide: The consumer health scare that isn’t

08-Sep-2009

Consumers love to get their teeth into a good health scare. So how is it that acrylamide has slipped under the radar?

Swiss food scientists cook up low acrylamide fries

09-Oct-2003

Maximum quality and minimum acrylamide content were on the agenda
for a recent link-up between Swiss food scientists. The results of
their quest? The optimum conditions are now defined.

Cut the acrylamide, a call to food companies

06-Jun-2003

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should require food
manufacturers to limit the amount of the potential carcinogen
acrylamide in their products, said the Center for Science in the
Public Interest (CSPI), a nonprofit US organisation,...

Solutions to acrylamide?

11-Oct-2002

When scientists from Sweden reported earlier this year that several
ordinary foodstuffs could contain high levels of acrylamide - a
potentially cancer-causing chemical - governments, food
associations and food manufacturers drew a...

Acrylamide - getting to the root of the problem

01-Oct-2002

New research from Procter & Gamble suggests that there may be
more appropriate methods of preventing the formation of
cancer-causing chemical acrylamide than simply cooking food at
lower temperatures - but also that the compound...