Air fried food has a plethora of health benefits over traditional deep frying. For starters, it helps substantially decrease the total fat and calories of your favorite "fried" food fare! However, ...

The chemical acrylamide, or acrylic amide, is a white, odorless, crystal compound. It has the chemical formula C 3 H 5 NO. It’s used to make plastics and treat wastewater, among other things. Every ...

Frozen foods on the surface should be a healthy option. However, packaging and certain preservatives can make the foods not ...

That acrylamide is present in French fries is information you might choose to forget, like mercury in tuna. Recently I was reminded of this inconvenient fact by an article on genetically modified ...

When coffee beans are picked and removed from the fruit they're inside, they're a pale color. It's only after they're roasted that they take on a dark or light shade of brown and develop that ...

Trouble is brewing for coffee lovers in California, where a judge ruled that sellers must post scary warnings about cancer risks. But how frightened should we be of a daily cup of joe? Not very, some ...

Roasted coffee beans contain small quantities of a compound called acrylamide. In high amounts, acrylamide can be harmful. There are even concerns that acrylamide in coffee may also cause cancer.

Products of the Maillard reaction are responsible for much of the flavour and colour generated during baking and roasting. An important associated reaction is the Strecker degradation of amino acids ...

The European Union and the United States are taking different approaches to a fairly recently discovered chemical that’s been in food as long as men and women have been cooking with fire. Reduced ...

The Maillard reaction is arguably the world’s most beloved chemical process. Cooks learned long ago that raw, unappetizing ingredients such as potatoes and grains can be turned into toasty treats with ...