How to Use Plantain: If fresh plantain grows in your yard, you can make sure it has not been sprayed by pesticides or pets and use in teas or the young leaves in salads. For stings and bites, make a poultice of fresh plantain leaf and bentonite clay with water to form a paste.
Burnt food is considered carcinogenic, simply because the carbon molecules have the ability to disrupt our dna, it's able to break portions of DNA and insert itself within... this leads to our dna reproducing it self 'wrongfully' with a different structure.. potentially causing cancer.
At the same time, red meat has been classified as probably carcinogenic, because while a direct link between it and cancer has yet to be found in humans, studies have found strong evidence for it in lab animals.