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Grain Legumes

Part of the book series: Handbook of Plant Breeding ((HBPB,volume 10))

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Grain legumes are a recognized important dietary source of nutrients for human welfare, either directly, as a component of the diet, or indirectly, being used to feed livestock. Legume seeds provide an exceptional variety of essential nutrients including proteins, fibres, minerals and vitamins; nevertheless, they also contain bioactive and/or antinutritional compounds, such as phytate, oligosaccharides, phenolic compounds, nonprotein amino acids, lectins and enzyme inhibitors that play metabolic roles in humans or animals and whose effects may be regarded as positive, negative or both. In this chapter, the main classes of these compounds, together with some minor species-specific ones, are described in relation to their biological activities, abundance in grain legume seeds and role in nutrition and health.

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This work was partially supported by the Programme FILAGRO “Strategie innovative e sostenibili per la filiera agroalimentare”, as part of the activities defined within the Accordo Quadro Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Regione Lombardia.

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Sparvoli, F., Bollini, R., Cominelli, E. (2015). Nutritional Value. In: De Ron, A. (eds) Grain Legumes. Handbook of Plant Breeding, vol 10. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2797-5_10

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