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Shengxiong Chen1, Fan Zhang1, Randolph R J Arroo2
1Universidade de Vigo, Nutrition and Bromatology Group, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Instituto de Agroecoloxía eAlimentación (lAA)-CITEXVI, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
Abstract:
Dietary polyphenols are susceptible to degradation during high-temperature cooking, yet their transformation behavior in lipid-rich frying systems remains poorly understood. The thermal stability and degradation of myricetin in a simplified palmitic acid model under frying-relevant conditions was investigated. Myricetin degraded rapidly at 180 °C but remained relatively stable at 120 °C. UPLC-QTOF-MS/MS, supported by density functional theory calculations, suggested that myricetin transformation is temperature-dependent but primarily governed by lipid oxidation-derived radical and carbonyl chemistry. Vitamin C markedly delayed myricetin degradation by suppressing radical initiation and limiting o-quinone-centered downstream reactions. These findings highlight lipid oxidation as a key determinant of polyphenol stability during frying and clarify the protective role of antioxidants in lipid-rich thermal processing systems.
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