The pH and reducing sugar content of the extracts are provided in Table 1. The extract with the highest reducing sugar content was that from bougainvillea (2.8 g/100 g dry solids), followed by the green tea extract (1.0 g/100 g dry solids). The quantification of this parameter made it possible to establish a reason for why acrylamide levels were not reduced by some extracts. Reducing sugars play an important role in the generation of acrylamide through the Maillard reaction (Mottram et al., 2002). Of the extracts evaluated, the one from cinnamon presented the lowest pH (5.7) and that.