3. Results and discussion
In industry, the most common frying temperature for potato products is 180 1C. We selected in this study, a medium (150 1C) and a low (120 1C) frying temperature since recent findings show that acrylamide (a possible carcinogen in humans) formation in potato chips could be reduced significantly by decreasing the frying temperature (Haase, Mattha ¨ us, & Vosmann, 2003; Pedreschi, Kaack, & Granby, 2004). In this study, the effect of one low frying temperature such as 120 1C over the finaltexture of potato chips was tested.