
The aim of this review is to give a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge on plant metabolites of mycotoxins, also called masked mycotoxins. Mycotoxins are secondary fungal metabolites, toxic to human and animals. Toxigenic fungi often grow on edible plants, thus contaminating food and feed. Plants, as living organisms, can alter the chemical structure of mycotoxins as part of their defence against xenobiotics. The extractable conjugated or non‐extractable bound mycotoxins formed remain present in the plant tissue but are currently neither routinely screened for in food nor regulated by legislation, thus they may be considered masked. Fusarium mycotoxins (deoxynivalenol, zearalenone, fumonisins, nivalenol, fusarenon‐X, T‐2 toxin, HT‐2 toxin, fusaric acid) are prone to metabolisation or binding by plants, but transformation of other mycotoxins by plants (ochratoxin A, patulin, destruxins) has also been described. Toxicological data are scarce, but several studies highlight the potential threat to consumer safety from these substances. In particular, the possible hydrolysis of masked mycotoxins back to their toxic parents during mammalian digestion raises concerns. Dedicated chapters of this article address plant metabolism as well as the occurrence of masked mycotoxins in food, analytical aspects for their determination, toxicology and their impact on stakeholders.
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animal food, bound mycotoxins;conjugated mycotoxins;masked mycotoxins;plant metabolism, 570, Food Handling, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], product safety, review, plant, Food Contamination, Review, chemistry, 630, food control, masked mycotoxins, Fusarium, mycotoxins, Animals, Humans, human, isolation and purification, microbiology, methodology, Mycotoxins, Plants, Animal Feed, plant metabolism, conjugated mycotoxins, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], food contamination, Consumer Product Safety, bound mycotoxins, Food Microbiology, metabolism, food handling
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