You can get Cancer by having dark toasties and Potato roasties!

You might need to reconsider your preferred breakfast meal as a fresh study has shown that dark pledges and roast potatoes may give you cancer. The research from the United Kingdom ‘s Food Standards Agency (FSA) quantified the quantity of acrylamide – a cancer-causing toxin – in roast potatoes, chips and toast cooked in your home, Stuff.co.nz reported.

The FSA’s chief scientific advisor said the brand new research revealed the importance of roast potatoes and chips to be cooked to only “a light gold colour” and that bread needs to be toasted to “the lightest colour okay”. Researchers using the FSA found that the crispier the roast potato or chip, the larger the rates of acrylamide they included. The same went for pledge.

Guy Poppy, the FSA’s Chief Scientific Adviser, said in a report accompanying the study the risk assessment suggests that at the amounts we’re exposed to from food, acrylamide could be raising the chance of cancer. Scientists continue to be uncertain about what constitutes a safe degree of acrylamide.