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For the uninitiated in Advanced Glycation Ends (AGEs): > AGEs can also be ingested from food, especially food cooked at high temperatures and with little moist
by BJones12 2y ago
For the uninitiated in Advanced Glycation Ends (AGEs):
> AGEs can also be ingested from food, especially food cooked at high temperatures and with little moisture, like grilled meats, fried foods, and baked goods.[23] The Maillard reaction is the main nonenzymatic reaction known to form AGEs in cooking and is famously known for the distinct browning color and complex flavor and aroma of roasted coffee, French fries, seared meat, and other favorites.
- eptcyka 2y agoIn short, if it tastes nice and was man-processed, it probably will be bad for you?
- tjohns 2y agoThat's a good first-order approximation, but is missing some nuance. An example they use is eggs: Pan-fried eggs are listed as high in AGEs, whereas scrambled eggs aren't. Admittedly my diet isn't the best, but I wouldn't have expected a meaningful difference between ordering my eggs scrambled vs sunnyside-up. Or for meat, stewed meat would be healthier than roasted meat. I'm suddenly curious about coffee, now that they mention it...
- formerly_proven 2y agoScrambled eggs don't have any browning, sunny side up does.
- UncleOxidant 2y agoThat depends. Some people like to brown their scrambled eggs a bit.
- saurik 2y agoI mean, the nuance seemed captured by the "in short" here, as you are just providing examples of things that taste nicer ;P.
- eptcyka 2y agoThe browning is what makes food taste great for me, and that is what makes sunny side up eggs be less healthy. If you browned an omlette, it’d have a similar effect, I imagine.
- moab 2y agoCoffee is very low in AGEs as per Table 2 of https://www.jandonline.org/article/S0002-8223(10)00238-5/fulltext https://www.jandonline.org/article/S0002-8223(10)00238-5/ful...
- TeMPOraL 2y agoWell, it was good for us when we first tamed fire, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Ain't greater modern cargo cult than "healthy food".
- tjohns 2y agoPeople didn’t live very long when we first tamed fire - not because of diet, but because something else in nature would eventually get you first. So it didn’t really matter what early humans ate as long as it gave them immediate energy. People only needed to live long enough to reproduce, and that’s what our bodies are optimized for. Most people would prefer to live longer, though. ;)