Smoked foods are tastier, less harmful with a tip from the auto industry

Infusing foods with smoke can impart delicious nuanced flavours, but could also come with an unwelcome side of carcinogens. To reduce the carcinogen content of smoked foods, researchers took a lesson from the automobile industry, running the smoke through a zeolite filter to remove harmful compounds. It worked, and with a happy bonus: superior smoke flavour.