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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
Volume 59, Issue 1, Pages 16-23Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602027
Keywords
heterocyclic amines; meat; cancer risk; 24-h recall; dietary intake
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- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA080205, R01CA055069] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCI NIH HHS [R35 CA55069, R01 CA55069, R01 CA80205] Funding Source: Medline
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Objective: Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) from high-temperature cooking of meat have been linked to increased cancer incidence in Western populations, but data on the sources of HCAs in Asian diets are scarce. Our aim was to identify potential sources of HCAs in the Chinese diet, and to provide the basis for efforts to quantify dietary exposure to these compounds. Design and setting: We conducted 24-h dietary recall interviews among 986 Chinese men and women in Singapore, who were a randomly selected subpopulation of participants from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a population-based cohort. Details of all foods and beverages consumed by each subject in the past 24 h were recorded, and information on meat type, cooking method and portion size were abstracted from all meat-containing dishes, and gram weight equivalents computed. Results: The mean meat intake per person was 103.0 g/day ( standard deviation 74.2), of which 97.2% was fresh meat. Fish (38.0%), pork (30.6%), and poultry (21.0%) accounted for 89.6% of meat consumed. Patterns of meat consumption and cooking methods differed markedly from Western populations. Documented high-temperature cooking methods, combined with stir-frying, accounted for 44.3% of fish, 35.1% of pork and 25.6% of poultry consumed. Specifically, potentially significant sources of HCAs were pan-fried fish and barbecued pork. Conclusions: Our results identify the potential sources of HCA in the Chinese diet, highlight aspects which are relevant to HCA formation and intake, and call for novel approaches to estimating individual exposure to dietary HCAs in this and similar populations.
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