Worth sending to anyone you know that smokes
In fried potatoes, glucose and the amino acid asparagine undergo a Maillard reaction to yield acrylamide, classified by IARC as a probable human carcinogen. Although associations cannot prove a cause-and-effect relationship, a study by the highly reputable Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle compared about 1,500 prostate cancer patients with the same number of controls and found that regular consumption, at least once a week, of fried chicken, fried fish, doughnuts or french fries increases the risk of developing the disease
A simple answer would be, I think it's just harder
This resulted in a highly pure yet durable material that could be used in the rather picky food, hygiene, and medical industries, for example, to make meat pads, wound dressings and female hygiene products, just to name a few