Heat-generated food toxicants: identification, characterisation and risk minimisation

1. Summary  Heating food gives many advantages – it adds taste, colour and texture and minimises harmful germs. Flavour and aroma compounds are produced via the Maillard reaction but at the same time various health hazardous compounds may form. The main route for acrylamide formation goes via the Maillard reaction between reducing sugars (glucose and fructose) but also sucrose, and the