K. Janardhanan

TL;DR: The chemical composition and nutritional characteristics of seeds of Mucuna pruriens were investigated in this article, where the mature seeds contained 314.4 g/kg crude protein, 51.6 g/ kg crude fiber, 67.3 g/g crude fat, 41.1 g/k ash, and 525.6g/kg carbohydrates.

TL;DR: Four accessions of the under-utilized legume, velvet bean, collected from three different locations of Western Ghats, South India were analysed for proximate composition, mineral profiles, the protein fractions, amino acid profiles of total seed protein, in vitro protein digestibility and certain anti-nutritional factors to determine their potential as an alternative source to alleviate protein-energy-malnutrition among the people of South India.

TL;DR: Of all the processing methods, autoclaving seemed to be the most efficient for reduction in content of the antinutrients, except phytic acid, and improving IVPD in both the pulses studied.

TL;DR: Profiles of amino acids revealed that the seed proteins contained relatively higher levels of all the essential amino acids except sulpho-amino acids in all the three germplasm of M. pruriens and threonine in the germplasms of Silent Valley and Lucknow when compared with the WHO requirement pattern.

TL;DR: Profiles of amino acids of total seed proteins detected in the present study revealed that levels of valine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, isoleucine, and histidine of all the seven wild legume seed samples were found to be higher than FAO/WHO (1991) requirement pattern.