“…It is well-known that thiols oxidize easily to disulfides. For this reason it is not surprising that the 15 disulfides or mixed disulfides (Table 1) resulting from the oxidation of the 5 thiols listed in Figure 1 have been identified in commercial meat flavorings (Gasser and Grosch, 1990b;Ruther and Baltes, 1994a,b) as well as in model Maillard reaction systems (Tressl et al, 1983(Tressl et al, , 1990Hartmann et al, 1984;Reineccius and Liardon, 1985;Silwar and Tressl, 1989;Farmer and Mottram, 1990;Gu ¨ntert et al, 1990Gu ¨ntert et al, , 1992aWerkhoff et al, 1990;Zhang and Wo, 1991;Farmer and Patterson, 1991;Whitfield et al, 1992;Mottram and Whitfield, 1994;Hofmann and Schieberle, 1995). FFT-FFT and MFT-MFT (nomenclature in Table 1) were found in cooked meat Grosch, 1988, 1990a;Farmer and Patterson, 1991;Grosch and Zeiler-Hilgart, 1992), and FFT-FFT was found in roasted coffee (Tressl, 1981) as well as in wheat bread (Baltes and Song, 1994).…”