Research: Refrigerating potatoes may increase risk of disease

The Dhaka Times Desk Many of us buy potatoes at the beginning of the week along with other vegetables and stock them in the fridge. Potatoes may be good for a long time. But it does not have any effect on the body?

Whether it is ground meat or thin fish broth, if there is no potato in the cooking, how does it feel in the mind. Although not in terms of health, potatoes are ahead of many other vegetables in terms of taste. Just as children have a love for potatoes, so do adults. At the beginning of the week, no one forgot to bring a few kilos of potatoes and store them in the fridge. Potatoes may be good for a long time. But it also affects the body. A recent study suggests that eating potatoes stored in the refrigerator may increase the risk of cancer.

Most people buy weekly vegetables from the market and keep them in the fridge. And that list includes potatoes. Cooking time is taken out as needed. According to the researchers, keeping other vegetables in the refrigerator is not a problem. However, the matter is completely different in the case of potatoes. If potatoes are kept in the fridge for a long time, excess sugars are formed in them. Now, when you take potatoes out of the fridge and cook them, those sugars turn into cancer-causing acrylamide.

Starch converts to sugar while potatoes are in the refrigerator. And when exposed to heat, these sugars turn into harmful amino acids. This acid combines with asparagine to form the chemical acrylamide. Several other facts have been revealed in this study. Apart from potatoes, foods like bread and tomatoes should not be kept in the fridge at all. Along with this, the researchers have forbidden to keep fruits and vegetables like onion, cucumber, garlic in the refrigerator.

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