Food Processing and Millards Reaction Products: Effects on Human Health and Nutrition

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February, 2015. Millard reaction can be defined as the reaction that releases flavor, color, and aroma when cooking. It is widely used most especially in the baking and food industry to give food taste. It is also known to be an enzymatic reaction that at high temperature in the absence of enzyme. The Millard reaction is formed in the presence of sugar and amino acid. Millard reaction takes place in living organisms and also are health beneficial acting as an anti-oxidative, and antibiotics. They also help in the promotion of diabetics, and cardiovascular diseases an example of this MRPs is carboxymethyl lysine (CML), and acrylamide acting as a carcinogen. It was reported that people that eat instant meal such as pizza, snacks, and processed meats tend to have developed insulin resistance, and metabolic syndrome more than those that eat low processed foods, and vegetables. Millard reaction products changes while processing foods, and they are important either in the increasing or fighting of diseases. Furthermore; SOYBEAN processing also produces MPRs that is good and bad to health play an important role in the cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, and cancer. Also microwaving of soybeans for a short time (1-2) min produces high of acrylamide, while (3-5) min microwaving can lead to low level of acrylamide which acts as a carcinogen. Milk undergoes Ultra high temperature (UHT) treatment for the quality and safety. Also milk processing has both initial and advanced stages of MPRs which acts as an indicator of browning reaction in milk. The Processing of milk by heat treatments require attention especially for infants being the major food nutrients for

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