Re: How sucrose reacts with amino acid?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Syed) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi..
> 
> Can someone tell me how sucrose react with amino acids ? what are the
> resulting products?
> 
> I know reducing sugars react with amino acids -- maillard reaction.
> But sucrose is not reducing sugar.
> 
> Thanks
> Syed

If used in such  food stuff such as bread, sucrose is first inverted
to its component sugars fructose and glucose( which are reducing
sugars) and that will react with amino acids during baking through a
Maillards Reaction .
Inversion can come by acidic environment under heat, as well as by
enzymatic means ,through the enzyme invertase.
Roy
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