Why Breakfast Might Be More Dangerous Than You Think
19/06/2025
Mark Trowers,
The simple act of cooking a fried egg on toast could, ironically, be doing significant harm to our health, as research shows that cooking fried and grilled foods can raise pollution levels in the kitchen to over three times that of a typical London Road.
We’re talking, of course, about indoor air quality (IAQ), which is dangerously compromised by seemingly mundane everyday tasks such as cooking, cleaning and spraying aerosols. Alongside more obvious causes of poor IAQ such as smoking and vaping indoors, these factors all have a significant impact on the levels of pollutants we breathe inside our homes.
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