Do you know what Acrylamide is?-Good advice by Dr.Harold This is a chemical found in starches when they are over cooked at high temperatures like 248 F or 120deg.C. You need to be careful adding potatoes to meat curry and others and boiling for hours in a cooker, can brown the starch in potatoes to produce a cancer producing chemical called Acrylamide. Be aware, when you eat toast, French fries, you are taking some dose of this chemical into your body. It is a white, odourless, crystal compound, and is used to make plastics and treat waste water, among other things. Studies have shown that in animals acrylamide can damage DNA and cause cancer. Among humans there is no proof so far that this chemical can cause cancer. For some types of cancer in humans, including kidney, endometriosis and ovarian cancer the results of these studies are mixed, with ...