Journal Of Food Processing And Preservation, cilt.1, sa.1, ss.1-6, 2020 (SCI-Expanded)
The aim of this research was to investigate the levels of the most potent precursors of
advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in some high-sugar containing Turkish traditional foods and investigated the effects of sugar content on the formation of AGE
precursors. The amounts of glyoxal (GO) and methylglyoxal (MGO) were determined
by HPLC using pre-column derivatization. When we evaluated GO and MGO results,
GO and MGO values ranged from 99.8 to 223.3, and from 53.2 to 8,773.7 µg/100 g,
respectively. GO and MGO may be formed by Maillard reactions as well as caramelization reactions. Products made with red fruits contained low MGO amounts. Thus,
traditional foods containing red fruit may prevent the formation of GO and MGO. In
general, we concluded that foods containing proanthocyanidins are more effective
in reducing the MGO level than foods containing resveratrol. Further studies are
needed to support these results.