The stewed pork balls with brown sauce (SPB-BS) in China is well known for its delicacy and preferred by consumers. Maillard reaction (MR) is widespread in SPB-BS due to the use of sugar, meat and sauce in the thermal process. However, there is a lack of research on its risk and flavor by MR. By solid phase extraction combined with HPLC-MS, 4 kinds of harmful compounds including acrylamide (AA), heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs), 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI) and furan were analyzed in SPB-BS and their amounts ranged 0.05–0.50 mg/kg. The quantitative formula was proposed to evaluate the risk value of the SPB-BS, after taking into account the content, acceptable daily intake (ADI) and carcinogenicity of each compound. The risk values were in range of 0.57–37.93, suggesting that the risk caused by MR in SPB-BS was low. By head space-solid phase microextraction combined with GC-MS, 57 volatile compounds in SPB-BS were identified with the dominant contribution of alcohols, aldehydes, acids and esters. Based on the structures of these compounds and the composition of SPB-BS, lipid oxidation and MR are inferred to be responsible for the formation of the harmful and volatile compounds. In addition, the added sauces and oil provides the main precursors to form the harmful and volatile compounds in SPB-BS, so it is necessary to point out a balance between them in the further study.
Jing He,Guanghong Zhou,Yun Bai,Chao Wang,Shuran Zhu,Xinglian Xu,Chunbao Li
We investigated the effects of different pork preparation methods (cooked pork, emulsion-type sausage, dry cured pork, and stewed pork) on protein structures and in vitro digestion. Compared with raw meat, processed meats contained lower levels of free sulfhydryl groups (P < 0.05). Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) showed different protein profiles for pork products treated without or with 5% βME, which indicated different extents of disulfide bond formation. Emulsion-type sausage showed significantly higher α-helix content and lower β-sheet, β-turn, and random coil contents than cooked pork (P < 0.05). Correspondingly, emulsion-type sausage and dry-cured pork had the highest values of surface hydrophobicity (P < 0.05). Proteome data showed that the long salting and drying times used for dry-cured pork as well as long-term high-temperature cooking of stewed pork might alter the accessibility of digestive proteolytic enzymes to the protein cleavage sites.