Chemical Profiling and Variability analysis for Nutritive and Nonnutritive bioactive Components in Mungbean

Abstract

Most of the Indian diets are deficient of essential nutrients primarily due to newlineless awareness among the masses about balanced foods essentially required for newlinemaintaining human health. A large section of the Indian population is vegetarian newlinedepending largely upon plant-based food products to meet their protein requirements newlinebecause alternate sources of proteins dairy products and eggs are costlier to afford. newlinePulses play a significant role in eradicating malnutrition particularly in the Indian newlinecontext. Mungbean is an important pulse crop, which finds a unique place in terms of newlineits seed containing very high and better quality protein ranging from 20-30%. The newlineseeds are consumed both as raw sprouted form or cooked form either as whole or split newlinehusked and dehuskeddal. Mungbean seed has several health promoting factors that newlinehas made the mungbean seeds as one of the most recommended diet for human being newlineas it is easily digestible and also supplements several other minerals and vitamins. In newlineaddition to its high nutritive values, it also contains some anti-nutritional compounds newlinelike phytic acid, saponin, tannins, flavonoids and raffinose (RFO s) group of newlineoligosaccharides causing flatulence and reducing bioavailability of essential minerals. newline