Chemistry and genotoxicity of caramelized sucrose
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Caramelization of a 1% sucrose solution at 180 degrees C accompanied characteristic changes in pH, Mr, UV-absorbance, and fluorescence values as well as increased reducing power activity after 40-60 min. Similar changes occurred to sucrose heated at 150 degrees C, after 150-240 min. Bioactivity of caramelized sucrose samples was tested for mutagenic activity, using Salmonella typhimurium strains TA-98 and TA-100, respectively, as well as the Saccharomyces D7 yeast strain for mitotic recombination and Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO) to assess clastogenicity. Caramelized sucrose expressed no mutagenicity in the TA-98 strain, but gave positive (p < 0.05) results with the TA-100, base-pair substitution strain. Similarly, mitotic recombination in the Saccharomyces D7 yeast strain and clastogenic activity in CHO cells were induced when exposed to caramelized sucrose. In the all cases, preincubation with S-9 reduced (p < 0.05) the mutagenic activities of caramelized sucrose. Fractionation of the caramelized sucrose into volatile and nonvolatile compounds was performed and tested for clastogenicity using CHO cells. Volatile components contributed approximately 10% to total clastogenicity, which was enhanced by the presence of S-9. Nonvolatile components recovered, consisting of relatively lower Mr, gave highest (p < 0.05) clastogenic activity, denoting that higher Mr caramel colors are relatively free of this property.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it