Plant-based foods gain more importance since they play a key role in sustainable, low-meat
and healthy diets. In develo** countries, these food products, especially legumes and …

As Mexico is located within Mesoamerica, it is considered the site where the bean plant
originated and where it was domesticated. Beans have been an integral part of the Mexican …

This new edition of a bestseller examines plant nutrition's role as one of the most important
limiting factors that must be overcome to optimize food production. Extensively revised and …

The chemical composition and the contents of resistant starch and soluble and insoluble
dietary fibre of pea (Pisum sativum L.), common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), chickpea …

Waste management is one of the most significant challenges of EU policies for the coming
decades. Our changing food habits carries an inherent increase in waste nutrients, that …

Many varieties of dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) are available with entirely different
physico-chemical and sensory characteristics. Selected dry bean varieties (red kidney, small …

This study aimed to characterize the brown lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) starch and
investigate the formation of amylose-lipid complexes (Resistant Starch Type V) by the …

Eight improved haricot bean varieties were studied for their proximate composition and
physico-chemical properties. The nutrition related parameters studied were moisture, ash …

OBJECTIVE: Dietary fiber represents a broad class of undigested carbohydrate components.
The components vary in chemical and physical nature and in their physiological outcomes …

Changes in starch, functional, and microstructural characteristics that occurred in chickpea
and lentil under soaking, cooking, and industrial dehydration processing were evaluated …