If You Like to Eat Burnt Toast, These Are the Real Risks

If you like to eat burnt toast, these are the real risks

Hello, and welcome back to Everyday Science. If your preferred toaster setting tends to set off the smoke alarm, it may be concerning to learn that burnt toast contains a potentially cancer-causing substance. But scientists may have the solution in the form of genetically altered wheat, which leads to bread with lower levels of the substance acrylamide. Until this bread arrives, how much should we be worrying about acrylamide, and is there anyth…

Gene-edited wheat found to make toast less carcinogenic

Crispr genome editing, which involves selectively editing living organisms’ DNA, was used by researchers

Gene-Edited Wheat Cuts Harmful Acrylamide Without Yield Loss

Scientists at Rothamsted Research have developed gene-edited wheat with substantially lower levels of asparagine, without compromising yield, offering a potential pathway to safer food production and easier compliance with food safety regulations. Findings from two years of field trials show that wheat produced using CRISPR genome editing can significantly reduce concentrations of free asparagine, an amino acid that can be converted into acrylam…