Can Burnt Food Really Give You Cancer?

[NoviceNinja]

Since we are still not allowed to buy cigarettes from stores way back in high school, my friends and I used to pick up already smoked cigarettes on ashtrays then we light it again. Someone told us that relighting a burnt (previously used) cigarette might give you cancer. I'm sure it also applies to burnt foods like meat and such. How much of this information holds true?

 

[Kakashi2020]

Well it's said that burnt bread can give you cancer because of a certain cancer promoting chemical called acrylamide. The question is why would you eat burnt food? Barbecue for example isn't burnt, it's just a bit charred from cooking with soysauce and sugar and this gives it the appearance of being burnt but in reality it's not. Also you need to eat a ton of burnt food before it could affect you. So don't worry about it. It's like Don't eat Pork because you might get a heart attack.

 

[Folk Artist]

There have been studies that when the chemical acrylamide is formed on foods, it does raise the risk of cancer- and this forms on fried or baked foods especially when foods are burned. Take the skin off these burnt foods before you eat them as well.

 

[Alexandoy]

When it comes to cancer I believe that the cause is still unidentified until now that's why it is difficult to beat cancer. I don't think that eating burnt food will give you cancer. It may just be a coincidence that a person eats burnt food and had cancer later.