Ascorbic acid-protein mixtures of low moisture content stored for 2~3 days in aerobic conditions at 60°C produced a red coloration, which was shownto have resulted from an amino-carbonyl reaction of oxidized ascorbic acid (dehydroascorbic acid, DHA)by the facts that DHA-casein or ovalbumin systems yielded a rapid red coloration in low moisture conditions as well as in an ethanol suspension. Zein showed only a weak red coloration with DHA.An apparent decrease in the free amino group, as determined by the TNBS method, was observed to be
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