Is eating too many potato chips good for your health?

The oil content of potato chips is usually around 30%, which belongs to high-oil and high-salt food. Like other fried foods, long-term consumption is not healthy. At the same time, foods rich in starch may produce different levels of acrylamide after high-temperature processing, and some people worry that this substance has cancer risk.

Fan Zhihong, a nutrition expert at Agricultural University, believes that because the metabolism of the elderly is relatively slow, children's bodies are still developing and their detoxification ability is poor. These two kinds of people eat fried food containing acrylamide for a long time, and the toxins are not easy to be discharged, which is the most harmful to health. People suffering from hyperlipidemia, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and other chronic diseases must refuse crispy food such as potato chips.

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In 20 12 years, a set of experimental pictures circulated on the internet said that five potato chips could squeeze out 10 ml of oil. Later, experimenters and other nutrition experts clarified that this data was untrue. According to the experimenter's description, 7 grams of potato chips were used in the experiment (about 5 chips according to the quality of a single potato chip), and the theoretical extraction amount of oil was about 2.5 grams. The actual extraction amount was close to the theoretical value, not as much as "10 ml" reported on the Internet.

Later, some people repeated the experiment with different types of potato chips (sliced fried potato chips, potato powder fried potato chips, non-fried potato chips, fried puffed hollow potato chips, chain fast food restaurants), and found that the oil content of both kinds of fried potato chips was about 30%, while that of non-fried potato chips was about 25%. This is close to the theoretical value.

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