Acrylamide is a neurotoxic industrial chemical used in the plastics industry, found in cigarette smoke, and, in a bunch of foods. The chemical is created when we fry carbohydrates. By law, a glass of water has to have less than 0.12 millionths of a gram, and fast food French fries may exceed that safety limit by 30,000%.

Acrylamide has been considered a "probable human carcinogen" …

Acrylamide intake has now been linked to human kidney cancer, endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer, and human breast cancer. So, I encourage people to keep staying away from French fries and potato chips.

What happens when you bake a sweet potato that the inside cooks through steam — actually the water in the potato; when you cut open that potato, all that steam comes out; that's actually being cooked by steam, so it's cooked at temperatures exposed to the outside. What i would do, however, is not to eat the skin. Now if you microwave, you can eat the skin. But if you bake the skin and it gets all brown and crispy, I would scoop out and not eat the skin. That's out of concern with acrylamide, and should anyone be concerned about acrylamide (it's a possible human carcinogen). Until we know more about it, we should try to reduce our intake.