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Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) is a major nutritional syndrome affecting over 170 million preschool children and lactating women in develo** countries. Legumes are the cheapest source of significant amount of protein, minerals, and vitamins, which are essential for normal human growth and development. Hence, protein-rich legume vegetables have a major role to play in eradicating such malnutrition problems. So, consumption of legume vegetable needs to be given attention. Nutritive and therapeutic value and anti-nutritional factors of garden pea, French bean, vegetable cowpea, Dolichos bean, winged bean, cluster bean, vegetable soybean, and broad bean are discussed in this chapter. Further, the role of legume vegetables in starting entrepreneurship through seed production is also highlighted.

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Aghora, T.S., Thangam, M., Patil, N. (2023). Legume Vegetables for Human Nutrition and Entrepreneurship. In: Singh, B., Kalia, P. (eds) Vegetables for Nutrition and Entrepreneurship. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9016-8_20

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