Screening of Acrylamide Content in Commercial Plant-Based Protein Ingredients from Different Technologies
Open Access
- 21 March 2023
- Vol. 12 (6), 1331
- https://doi.org/10.3390/foods12061331
Abstract
The demand of plant-based protein ingredients (PBPIs) in the food sector has strongly increased over recent years. These ingredients are produced under a wide range of technological processes that impact their final characteristics. This work aimed to evaluate acrylamide contamination in a range of PBPIs produced with different technologies and classified into four categories i.e., flours, dry-fractionated proteins, wet-extracted proteins, and texturized vegetable proteins. The results highlighted a remarkable variability in the acrylamide contamination in all the classes under investigation, with the flours showing the lowest mean acrylamide content (280 µg kg−1) compared with the wet-extracted proteins that showed the highest (451 µg kg−1). These differences could likely be associated with the different processing technologies used to obtain the protein ingredients. These findings suggest the need to monitor acrylamide formation during the processing of PBPIs and, consequently, to study mitigation strategies when necessary.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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