Impact of seed size on residual hypoglycin levels in ackee

Dundee, Safiyyah J.S.; Minott, Donna A.

doi:10.1016/j.foodres.2011.07.045

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“…Although there are currently agricultural methods for the quantification of HGA in ackee fruit, − this is the first method to quantify both MCPG and HGA in fruit arils broadly within the soapberry family. Previous public-health studies investigating Jamaican Vomiting Sickness linked HGA content to the ripeness of ackee fruit, , leading to a public-health action warning against consumption of unripe ackee fruit.…”

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Quantification of Toxins in Soapberry (Sapindaceae) Arils: Hypoglycin A and Methylenecyclopropylglycine

Isenberg

Carter

Hayes

et al. 2016

J. Agric. Food Chem.

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Methylenecyclopropylglycine (MCPG) and hypoglycin A (HGA) are naturally-occurring amino acids found in some soapberry fruits. Fatalities have been reported worldwide as a result of HGA ingestion, and exposure to MCPG has been implicated recently in the Asian outbreaks of hypoglycemic encephalopathy. In response to an outbreak linked to soapberry ingestion, the authors developed the first method to simultaneously quantify MCPG and HGA in soapberry fruits from 1 to 10,000 ppm of both toxins in dried fruit aril. Further, this is the first report of HGA in litchi and longan arils. This method is presented to specifically address the laboratory needs of public health investigators in the hypoglycemic encephalitis outbreaks linked to soapberry fruit ingestion.

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