# Is it unhealthy to eat (slightly) burnt food?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-unhealthy-to-eat-slightly-burnt-food/591708>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 6, 2011, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-unhealthy-to-eat-slightly-burnt-food/591708 "2011-08-06T06:26:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-unhealthy-to-eat-slightly-burnt-food/591708/21 "2011-08-10T00:30:38Z")

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> I have a question that is a little off topic, but…  
> How do you know, like, everything?

Trust me, I don’t. If it seems that way, it probably just means that you’re reading the sorts of threads where I do know something. There are plenty of threads where I’m as clueless, or more, as anyone else.

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**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-unhealthy-to-eat-slightly-burnt-food/591708/22 "2011-08-10T14:13:25Z")

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> [@isaiahrobinson](#):
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> For 99% of our history the human life expectancy was only about 25-30 years, so this line of reasoning doesn’t comfort me all that much… 🙂

That’s in large part due to high childbirth and child death rates though. It doesn’t mean that there weren’t a lot of people who made it way past 30.

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**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-unhealthy-to-eat-slightly-burnt-food/591708/23 "2011-08-10T14:47:21Z")

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> [@Koxinga](#):
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> Wasn’t there a fad a few years back for Cajun style “blackened” fish & maybe other dishes? I wonder if that was super unhealthy.

Wait, I thought the “blackened” came from the ton of pepper and spices “blackening” the top part of the fillet… ?

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