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G D Khandelwal1, Y L Rimmer, B L Wedzicha
1Procter Department of Food Science, University of Leeds, UK.
Abstract:
The general characteristics of the reaction between sorbic acid and thiols are reviewed. Cysteine adds to the conjugated diene in position 5 to form the substituted 3-hexenoic acid. This is labile in acid solution, yielding a quantitative amount of sorbic acid. When wheat flour doughs are treated with sorbic acid and heated, a significant amount of the sorbic acid is not recovered on extraction with methanol. The use of acidified methanol leads to a quantitative recovery of the preservation and evidence is presented to suggest that sorbic acid-thiol adducts are formed. This is the first report of 'reversibly bound' sorbic acid in a food.
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