“…Several papers dealing with the addition of natural antioxidants (flavonoids, vitamin C and E), synthetic antioxidants (butylated hydroxyanisole, BHA; butylated hydroxytoluene, BHT; propyl gallate, PG; tertiary butylhydroquinone, TBHQ) and also food ingredients (cherry, polyphenolic compounds from tea, spices, oligosaccharides and inulin, olive oil) to meat have been published (Balogh, Gray, Gomaa, & Booren, 2000;Britt, Gomaa, Gray, & Booren, 1998;Johansson & Jägerstad, 1996;Lee, Jiaan, & Tsai, 1992;Murkovic, Steinberger, & Pfannhauser, 1998;Oguri, Suda, Totsuka, Sugimura, & Wakabayashi, 1998;Pearson, Chen, Gray, & Aust, 1992;Yen & Chen, 1995;Shin, Rodgers, Gomaa, Strasburg, & Gray, 2002a;Shin, Rodgers, Strasburg, & Gray, 2002b;Tai, Lee, & Chen, 2001;Shin, Park, & Park, 2003;Vitaglione & Fogliano, 2004;Weisburger, Nagao, Wakabayashi, & Oguri, 1994;Zöchling, Murkovic, & Pfannhauser, 2002). However, there is a lack of information about the effect of black pepper on the formation of HCAs in high-fat meatball.…”