Patent ID: 8193412

Claim:
A process for reducing the accumulation of acrylamide in a heat-treated food product, comprising: (a) lowering the content of reducing sugars in a selected plant by stably integrating into the genome of the plant a desired polynucleotide which leads to a reduction in the content of soluble sugars, wherein the desired polynucleotide consists essentially of (i) a nucleic acid sequence that is native to the selected plant, native to a plant from the same species as the selected plant, or native to a plant that is sexually interfertile with the selected plant; and wherein (ii) the desired polynucleotide does not contain foreign DNA that is not from the selected plant species or a plant that is sexually compatible with the selected plant species; (b) processing the selected plant to produce a food product; (c) heat treating the food produced in step (b); and (d) measuring the acrylamide content of the heat-treated food produced, wherein the heat-treated food accumulates a lower level of acrylamide than a heat-treated food produced from a selected plant whose content of reducing sugars is not lowered.