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by tjohns 526 days ago
That's a good first-order approximation, but is missing some nuance.

An example they use is eggs: Pan-fried eggs are listed as high in AGEs, whereas scrambled eggs aren't. Admittedly my diet isn't the best, but I wouldn't have expected a meaningful difference between ordering my eggs scrambled vs sunnyside-up.

Or for meat, stewed meat would be healthier than roasted meat.

I'm suddenly curious about coffee, now that they mention it...

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Scrambled eggs don't have any browning, sunny side up does.
That depends. Some people like to brown their scrambled eggs a bit.
Coffee is very low in AGEs as per Table 2 of https://www.jandonline.org/article/S0002-8223(10)00238-5/ful...
The browning is what makes food taste great for me, and that is what makes sunny side up eggs be less healthy. If you browned an omlette, it’d have a similar effect, I imagine.
I mean, the nuance seemed captured by the "in short" here, as you are just providing examples of things that taste nicer ;P.