Abstract:

In an effort to find a novel way for inhibiting acrylamide formation during frying, juices of nine different fruit plant species of different concentrations were used to soak potato strips before frying. For the quantitative and qualitative analysis of acrylamide in fried potato strips, a HPLC system equipped with a C18 column (15 cm × 4.6 mm, 5μm) using a methanol/water mixture (5:95, V/V) as the mobile phase and with a diode array detector set at 197.1 nm wavelength was used. Before injection onto the HPLC system, the extract from fried potato strips was cleaned up by solid-phase extraction. The developed standard curve of acrylamide displayed a good linear relationship over the concentration range from 0.02 to 0.1 mg/L (r = 0.9998). The recoveries for acrylamide spiked at three levels were between 90.2% and 94.7%. In 6 replicate precision experiments, a relative standard deviation range from 0.8% to 2.0% was obtained.

Key words: acrylamide, fried potato strips, fruit juices, inhibition