So, had a quick fun look at the California coffee/cancer claim and it's even sillier than you might imagine Follow this thread if you want to laugh at numbers
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Let's do the maths on this 75mg figurehttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/981328016176328704 …
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The 0.0000003 grams figure converts to 0.0003 milligrams 75/0.0003 = 250,000 That means that using this estimate, you'd have to drink 250,000ml of coffee to get 75mg of acrylamide
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250,000ml is 250 LITERS of coffee For reference, that's about 500 cups That is A LOT OF COFFEE
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I haven't even gotten to the best part yet: THIS IS A DAILY DOSEhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/981328016176328704 …
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To get the amount of acrylamide FROM COFFEE that this court suggested is possibly a problem, you'd have to drink 500 cups a day I would humbly suggest that this is probably impossible
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P.S. here's the source for those CDC figures. The important note is that it depends on which coffee brand you pick, but since I used one of the highest readings it doesn't make much difference anywayhttps://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/ChemicalContaminants/ucm053549.htm …
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P.P.S. the other important thing to remember is that acrylamide is found in most cooked starchy foods so you could potentially get dangerous amounts if you eat a lot of burned things but the claims from California are specifically about coffee not all food
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P.P.P.S forgot to mention that coffee contains caffeine, which in doses of as little as 50 cups is enough to kill you so "probably impossible" is generous here
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Final note: this thread doesn't talk about skin exposure to acrylamide, which is different. But unless people are rubbing thousands of cups of coffee on their skin each day, I reckon we're alright there too
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A k-cup contains about 12g of dried coffee; that’s probably more than you’d use brewing any other way. One assumes not all of the acrylamide makes it into the cup. For an 8oz cup then you’re looking in the ballpark of 20ml drink per 1g grinds.
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