Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration released a report offering guidance to the food industry on steps that can be taken to help reduce the amount of acrylamide in our food supply.

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, ...

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 ...

Acrylamide, a Proposition 65-listed substance that naturally forms in the cooking and heating of many plant-based foods, has been the focus of court action over the past six years. However, companies ...

Dietary levels of acrylamide, the chemical compound and known carcinogen naturally produced from cooking food, cannot be shown to pose any health risk to humans, according to an expert panel organized ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration is warning people to cut down on acrylamide, a chemical linked to cancer that can form in plant-based, starchy foods when they are cooked in high-temperatures like ...

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 ...

Yesterday the FDA released a Consumer Update suggesting that people try to reduce their consumption of a compound found in well- and over-cooked foods, called acrylamide. Apparently the offending ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Freshly roasted dark roast Tanzanian coffee beans Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. A judge ruled in March that coffee sellers in California should post warnings ...