If eating burnt food is considered cancerous, isn’t coffee cancerous too?

Question

If eating burnt food is considered cancerous, isn’t coffee cancerous too?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

I don’t know anything, but this article seems to go into it a bit.

https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/coffee-and-cancer-what-the-research-really-shows.html

> … Acrylamide is classified by IARC as a “probable carcinogen,” based primarily on genotoxicity experiments in animals. In 2002, Swedish scientists discovered that acrylamide could be formed from asparagine (an amino acid) and sugar during high-heat cooking. This discovery led to intensified research into the association between acrylamide intake from diet and cancer risk in humans. In 2011 and 2014, two large studies summarized the evidence in humans and found no association between dietary acrylamide and risk of several cancers.