Fried chicken nuggets, fried ribs, fried lotus root boxes... Are you salivating for fried foods that are golden, crispy outside and tender inside? Although fried food is delicious, high fat and high calorie are harmful to health. What should I do? Since the advent of the air fryer, which claims to be "oil-free" and "less oil", many people have been prized for making crispy and fragrant food without or with less oil, which can satisfy the taste buds and reduce the oil intake at the same time. It is simply the best of both worlds! However, in the past two days, a news that "experts do not recommend using more air fryers" rushed to the hot search, saying that the high-temperature heating of air fryers will produce acrylamide, a potential carcinogen, which has a risk of cancer, and "many nutrients will be lost under high temperature" and "it is easy to cause insufficient intake of unsaturated fatty acids". In this regard, many netizens did not buy it. Some even said, "experts are advised not to give advice. If you continue to give advice, you can't eat anything.". Can the air fryer still work? What's the problem? Soon, the reversal came. Many nutrition experts have issued documents to refute the rumor that the production of acrylamide is not the fault of the air fryer. As long as there are carbohydrates and proteins in the food, acrylamide will inevitably be produced after experiencing high temperatures above 120 ℃. That is to say, people usually use ordinary pots to fry, fry, braise or roast food at high temperature, all of which contain acrylamide more or less, but the overall amount of acrylamide consumed by people is not much, so there is no need to worry too much. Compared with traditional frying, air fryer can reduce the use of oil and is beneficial to health. However, if you want to eat a healthy diet, you still have to eat less fried food. When using the air fryer, try to lower the temperature, shorten the heating time, and pay attention to controlling the frequency. In fact, the message "do not recommend using more air fryers" is not completely unreasonable. Why did netizens roast and retaliate? The big reason is that the reasons supporting the view are untenable - talking about the harm regardless of dose is easy to cause alarmism. Acrylamide is a potential carcinogen, but as long as the intake is within the safe range, why worry? To judge whether a thing is healthy or not, we should not only clarify the premise, consider the frequency and quantity, but also have certain common sense. "A lot of nutrients will be lost under high temperature" and "it is easy to cause insufficient intake of unsaturated fatty acids" are unacceptable because they are seriously divorced from reality. Imagine how many people only eat food made of air fryer three meals a day? For most people, the general health problem is not insufficient oil intake, but excessive oil intake. How can people not be disgusted by such a lame argument? The dissemination of health information is closely related to people's life and should not be careless. Both information disseminators and platform publishers should strive to make the health information transmitted true, accurate and objective, and be vigilant enough for the content contrary to common sense and extreme expression, so that the wrong information has no place to live. (outlook new era)