“…These compounds are extensively detected in meat, dairy products, cereals, fruit, vegetables, bread, tea, sweets, soup, and sauces. − Mass spectrometry has been widely accepted for qualifying and quantifying AGEs. Extractions of free AGEs from food have been reported in several studies using ethanol, nonafluoropentanoic acid, or trichloroacetic acid. − Detection of the total amount of AGEs usually requires an extra acidic or enzymatic hydrolysis procedure, depending upon the acidic stability of AGEs. − After that, the amount of bound AGEs can be calculated by removing the free AGE concentration from the total AGE concentration (Figure S1 of the Supporting Information). , Many studies also measured the amount bound directly in the precipitate after trichloroacetic acid (TCA) precipitation and centrifugation. ,, However, some peptide-bound AGEs that may remain in the supernatant could escape from being detected. G-H1 and MG-H1, which were found to have a low reproduction after acid hydrolysis, were usually subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis using a mixture of proteases, including pepsin, aminopeptidase, and prolinase. , …”