Some historians believe that Marie Antoinette, the last queen of pre-revolutionary France, had decorated her hair with potato blossoms. This was what her husband Louis XVI did. The historians interpret this act as an attempt to encourage farmers to grow more potatoes. After the spread of potatoes in America and Europe, this fruit began to enter the field of industry and prompted manufacturers to create a suitable industrial model, which contributed to the use of intensive fertilizers and arsenic as the first synthetic pesticide to eliminate the potato beetle in Colorado. All this explains the popularity of potatoes since ancient times, which prompted the oldest of us to invent many of the recipes that enter the potatoes, which have reserved place on our tables to this day. [1]
A strange coincidence and a cold war was behind the creation of the most famous clichés we have these days. It was in 1853 when the fried potato fingers were famous and at the top of the menus. In New York, a customer - Saida - entered a restaurant and ordered a dish of French fries to try. But once the dish arrived, he returned it as a broad, not crunchy dish. The chef modified the dish but the customer returned it, making the chef feel the heat of insult. His kitchen slaps his face. As a reprisal movement, he sliced potatoes as thin as paper so that the customer could not handle them with a fork, and even forced him to use his hands! But this revenge made the customer satisfied and full of the class impressed with what he ate, hence the potato chips came to us.
The product that has become the favorite and inventive and add many different flavors, stands in the highest level of the crackers, which are often the first choice and companion on trips, snacks, home and other occasions. What made Alise Cappel , director of research at the Environmental Law Foundation in California, say in an interview on "The Drs":
"All potato chips contain acrylamide, and acrylamide is dangerous on your body because it can cause cancer." [2]
Trick .. Fact .. or rumor!
The European Union conducted a three-year study on the discovery of food toxins from heat. The report stated that there are more than 800 heat-generated compounds, including 52 potential carcinogens. One of these substances has been found to be a dangerous chemical known as acrylamide, which causes mutations in DNA, mutations in DNA increase the risk of cancer and may lead to neurological disorders. [3] In 2003, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urged consumers to limit consumption of food sources containing acrylamide. It is also worth mentioning that manufacturers are not directly responsible for adding this substance to many of the products it contains. It is a secondary substance produced from the cooking of some starchy foods at high temperatures. [4] [5]
So the consumer is wondering how to reduce its exposure to this toxic substance, which encapsulates many of the products that appear to be a step to completely eliminate the diet is difficult. This material is responsible for the bright brown color that envelops most baked goods, potato chips, smoke, crackers, coffee, and cakes. [6]
Is there an alternative?
30% of the diseases that affect us are based primarily on the diet of the individual, and here lies the responsibility. We can not always blame manufacturers of products that we can reduce our consumption if question marks and risk hover around or around a component. The FDA has provided some advice to consumers to help them enjoy home-made potato chips and reduce exposure to toxic substances by buying them ready: [7]
* Avoid overcooking. Acrylamide is made more frequently as the frying period lasts at high temperature.
* Do not store potatoes in the refrigerator. Low temperatures in the refrigerator can increase the proportion of acrylamide in cooking.
* It is recommended to cut potato slices and soak in the material for 15-30 minutes before cooking, this step reduces the proportion of formation of acrylamide during cooking.
* The golden color of mature potatoes is the safe color. The more potatoes become brown, the higher the percentage of acrylamide.
Innocent Acrylamide is guilty of Ulistra!
Manufacturers of crispy potato chips are innocent of adding acrylamide Yes, as it is self-made by a secondary step. But she is guilty of adding a fatty emulsifier called Olystra. This substance can not be absorbed by the human's stomach and therefore excreted by the stool, causing diarrhea, stomach discomfort, gastrointestinal problems, and intestinal tenderness, which puts the child at risk of malnutrition. And goes beyond it to get the vitamins in fat, where this material is dissolved and removed through the stool causing a lack of vitamins, which contributes to various health problems in children and adults as well. [8] [9] [10]
To sum up everything in the bag of crispy potato chips, the snack we give to our children and ourselves, the choice that sweeps the shelves with flavors and colors, and the product that offers great competition between international and local producers. Speaking of local companies, it should also be noted that some Western countries have already begun to clarify the full components of the bag, unlike local industries that conceal the exact information of the product, in order to complete the sale. This is, of course, contrary to the rules and conditions of the global health of food. [11]
The next time you eat your child or reward yourself with a bag of crispy ready-made potatoes remember that they contain toxic acrylamide, along with the oleastra, you can remember the following: [12]
* Contains high percentage of saturated fat, which is a major risk to the arteries of the heart as a result of deposition.
* Fry these chips in oils of unknown origin, and unknown at the time of renewal, and this allows contamination and the opportunity to contain trans fats that the FDA recommends to be = 0 in our diet.
* Increase the stomach acids, which in turn increase the risk of stomach diseases, such as: intestinal flu, and ulcers.
Your health appeal will not stop. And the advice of the specialists will not change the need to return to everything that is normal, and provide alternatives for each industrial does not know what materials and vehicles and the way it was made!
Stand by your health
Potatoes have a long history, where the Incas were worshiped in the Peruvian highlands and blamed in Ireland when potato crops were destroyed in Europe, leading to famine. Today, potatoes are the fourth largest food crop in the world! This crop is preferred by all, adults and young people, in all its crunchy, mashed, fried and baked. That's true. [13] Even in the harshest cinematic fantasies and inventing a scenario for a man forgotten in Mars, "the martian", the potatoes got a chance to succeed on Mars!
But the appeal for your health will not stop. And the advice of the specialists will not change the need to return to everything that is normal, and provide alternatives for each industrial does not know what materials and vehicles and the way it was made! Dr. Alan Greens says the foods we eat are the main source of chemicals in our bodies. In 2005, a study was conducted on infants and the result was shocking. Nearly 200 industrial chemicals were found in the infant's body at birth. When asked about how food changed over time and how it affected us all, Dr. Greenz said his answer was brief:
"It has not changed, but the food of my father and your father when they were children was only organic"!