Thus the IARC classification of 2A, meaning it's likely that acrylamide causes cancer but we aren't sure if it does yet Which might be because of the dose
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You see, the rats in the original studies that I linked above were getting quite a lot of acrylamide
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The lowest amounts where cancer was detected are about 1 mg/kg. Extrapolating to the average(ish) 75kg adult human, that's 75mg
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How much acrylamide is in your coffee? The CDC has some figures from the early noughties that put it at ~300ppb (parts per BILLION)pic.twitter.com/hJFJYN25L1
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That means that every gram of dry coffee beans has ~roughly~ 0.0000003 grams of acrylamide in it
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Now, brewed coffee probably has even less. But let's take that 0.0000003 grams as the figure that you'd find per milliliter of coffee
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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'd heard that America is nuts but I didn't realize they had entire bathtubs full off coffee there
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