Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 122, Issue 3, Pages 753-760Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.03.049
Keywords
Potato; Acrylamide; Sulphate fertiliser; Amino acids; Sugars; Volatile compounds
Funding
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) of the United Kingdom [BB/C508634/1, BB/C508669/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/C508634/1, BB/G018995/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/G018995/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Lack of sulphur nutrition during potato cultivation has been shown to have profound effects on tuber composition, affecting in particular the concentrations of free asparagine, other amino acids and sugars. This is important because free asparagine and sugars react at high temperatures to form acrylamide, a suspect carcinogen. Free amino acids and sugars also form a variety of other compounds associated with colour and flavour. In this study the volatile aroma compounds formed in potato flour heated at 180 degrees C for 20 min were compared for three varieties of potato grown, with and without sulphur fertiliser. Approximately 50 compounds were quantified in the headspace extracts of the heated flour, of which over 40 were affected by sulphur fertilisation and/or variety. Many of the 41 compounds found at higher concentrations in the sulphur-deficient flour were Strecker aldehydes and compounds formed from their condensation, whereas only one compound, benzaldehyde, behaved in the same way as did acrylamide and was found at higher concentrations in the sulphur-sufficient flour. The reasons for these effects are discussed. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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