Amino Acids Alone

• Alanine

• Asparagine

• Glutamine

• Methionine

• Amino acids alone not believed to be a major pathway in potatoes and grains

• Relevance to acrylamide formation in other foods (coffee?) needs to be verified

Acrylamide

H2N

O

NH2

O

OH

H2N

O

NH2

O

OH

R.

Asparagine

Glutamine

Stadler et al. Nature Vol 419 3 Oct. 2002, p. 449

c

c

NH2

c

O

H

H

H

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