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FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
Volume 54, Issue 2, Pages 1394-1399Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2013.09.006
Keywords
Amino acid degradation; Carbonyl-amine reactions; Carbonyl compounds; Food flavor generation; Mallard reaction; Strecker aldehydes
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- European Union
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain [AGL2012-35627]
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In an attempt to find out new formation routes of possible reaction partners responsible for Strecker aldehyde formation in foods, this study describes the formation of phenylacetaldehyde in mixtures of phenylalanine with other amino acids upon heating. When phenylalanine was heated at 200 degrees C for 1 h in the presence of cysteine and serine, the formation of phenylacetaldehyde increased by 686 and 565%, respectively, in comparison to the phenylacetaldehyde produced by phenylalanine. This reaction, which was similarly produced by both amino acids as a function of reaction conditions (pH, amino acid concentration, reaction atmosphere, time and temperature), is suggested to be a consequence of the reaction between the carbonyl compounds produced by amino acid degradation and the phenylalanine. These results indicate that the amino acids cysteine and serine are able to contribute to the formation of Strecker aldehydes in foods, analogously to the previously described for carbohydrates and oxidized lipids. Nevertheless, the reaction has a relatively high E-a (91.5 and 102.6 kJ/mol for cysteine and serine, respectively). Therefore, it should only be expected to play a significant role in processes that require a high thermal input. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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