Throwback: Fufu causes cancer, stop eating it – Expert Advises
An expert from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology (KNUST) has advised the general public to reduce the consumption of fufu as it causes cancer.
According to her, a research was done to notified that fufu contains a cancer causing agent. The study was carried out ultimately to establish the negative effect of eating fufu.
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In the fufu, we found the cancer causing agent in the soup. The fish used in preparing the soup was smoked. As a fish gets smoked and charred or burnt, it becomes pyrenised.
Fufu causes cancer
This is because the fish had contact with metal that contains Benzo(a) pyrene which causes cancer.” One of the researchers told Joynews in a documentary.
About how fried rice causes cancer, she had this to say:
” Continuous stirring of rice in a pan before it fries makes it contaminated with metallic Benzo(a)pyrene. Sometimes the laddle used in stirring fried rice is even a metal.” The researcher added.
Fufu is one of the favourite delicacies in Ghana and several African countries.
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