According to most accounts, air fryers are better for your health than any other kind of frying — especially the classic frying in oil. In fact, air frying will cut down the amount of calories in your fried food by a stunning 70 percent!  This kind of cooking also reduces some of the other harmful aspects of oil frying. When you fry starchy food like potatoes, the chemical reaction that creates your great taste also creates some harmful chemicals like acrylamide — which increases your risk of developing cancer.  Air frying reduces the acrylamide levels in fried food by 90 percent! However, there are a couple of downsides to this — air frying is also known to reduce the omega-3 fatty acids found in fried fish. And these aren’t harmful fats — they’re great for your good cholesterol levels and they lower your blood pressure, protecting your heart in the long run.