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Charcoal powder and cranberries bread
(thelemmy.club)
I wanted to make a loaf with nice dark and red color contrast and I think it came out very interesting. Here is a picture of the full loaf:
~~Yeah, I'd recommend that over putting carcinogenic dust in your food.~~
After doing further research, today I learned that it's specifically cooking meat over a charcoal fire that creates carcinogenic compounds, and not charcoal itself. Ignore me!
Activated charcoal is not carcinogenic tho
But it does potentially mess with medications. I generally avoid cooking with it, especially when cooking for others.
I used a perfectly edible food grade charcoal. Something like this https://www.herbstore.gr/en/p/energos-anthrakas-food-grade-skoni. I got mine from a local spice seller
There's also not evidence that cooking meat over a fire affects cancer risk. It does create compounds that have been shown to increase risk in mice fed 1000x what you or I would eat.
You could do the same thing for practically any compound. Fruit juice will naturally contain a small percentage of ethyl alcohol, a known carcinogen, and we know from many studies that over consumption of ethyl alcohol greatly increases the risk of many cancers.