Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 269, Issue -, Pages 321-326Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.06.148
Keywords
Biogenic amines; Cytotoxicity; Food safety; Spermine; Spermidine; IC50; NOAEL; LOAEL
Funding
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [AGL2016-78708-R]
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Spermine and spermidine are polyamines (PA) naturally present in all organisms, in which they have important physiological functions. However, an excess of PA has been associated with health risks. PA accumulates at quite high concentrations in some foods, but a quantitative assessment of the risk they pose has been lacking. In the present work, the cytotoxicity of spermine and spermidine was evaluated using an in vitro human intestinal cell model, and employing real-time cell analysis. Both spermine and spermidine showed a dose-dependent cytotoxic effect towards the cultured cells, with necrosis the mode of action of spermidine and perhaps also that of spermine. Spermine was more cytotoxic than spermidine, but for both PA the concentrations found to be toxic were above the maximum at which they have been found in food. The present results do not, therefore, support the idea that spermine or spermidine in food is harmful to healthy people.
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