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Food proteins may be modified during processing and storage through reactions with reducing sugars (Maillard reaction, glycation) or by reactive oxygen species (protein oxidation). Little is known about particular reactions at the interface of glycation and oxidation. In the present study, the glycated amino acid pyrraline (6-(2-formyl-5-hydroxymethyl-1-pyrrolyl)-l-norleucine) and the proteinogenic amino acids tyrosine and tryptophan were subjected to different types of oxidation. The stability of the amino acids was assessed by HPLC with UV detection, whereas oxidation products were assigned by HPLC with triple quadrupole or time-of-flight mass spectrometric detection. Conditions that lead to oxidation of aromatic proteinogenic amino acids can also lead to oxidation of pyrraline. Pyrraline was particularly unstable in the presence of permanganate, hypochlorite, and under hydroxyl radical-generating conditions (iron, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, ascorbic acid). Evidence obtained by high-resolution mass spectrometry revealed the oxidation of pyrraline to 6-(2,5-diformyl-1-pyrrolyl)-l-norleucine, 6-(2-carboxy-5-hydroxymethyl-1-pyrrolyl)-l-norleucine, 6-(2-formyl-5-carboxy-1-pyrrolyl)-l-norleucine, and 6-(2,5-dicarboxy-1-pyrrolyl)-l-norleucine in the presence of potassium permanganate. The latter product was isolated by semipreparative HPLC and characterized by NMR. Under hydroxyl radical-generating conditions, pyrraline is hydroxylated at the ring under formation of 6-(2-formyl-4-hydroxy-5-hydroxymethyl-1-pyrrolyl)-l-norleucine or 6-(2-formyl-3-hydroxy-5-hydroxymethyl-1-pyrrolyl)-l-norleucine. This study shows that the so-called "advanced glycation end products" are no end products of the Maillard reaction, but may undergo further chemical degradation reactions.