Nutraceutical and functional food market are one of the fastest-growing food segments in the
newer food product development category. In the recent past, focus of beverage industry has …

The digestibility and bioavailability of plant protein are the key factors for meeting human
nutritional needs and particularly when looking for alternatives for animal-based proteins …

Massive urbanization and increasing disposable incomes favor a rapid transition in diets
and lifestyle in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). As a result, the SSA population is becoming …

Saponins are steroid and triterpenoid glycosides that display diverse biological activities.
The wide-spread occurrence in plants as well as the potential for pharmaceutical application …

The use of food supplements for weight loss purposes has rapidly gained popularity as the
prevalence of obesity increases. Navigating through the vast, often low quality, literature …

Overweight and obesity are constantly increasing, not only in Western countries but also in
low‐middle‐income ones. The decrease of both the intake of carbohydrates and their …

Legume lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins of non-immune origin. Significant
amounts of lectins have been found in Phaseolus vulgaris beans as far back as in the last …

The objective was to evaluate the in silico, in vitro and in vivo effects of a black bean
hydrolyzed protein isolate (HPI) and its pure peptides on glucose absorption. By interacting …

Low pH-shifting was firstly applied in the black turtle bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) protein
isolate treatment by acidic (pH 1.0–3.0) buffer incubation for 8 h, then was adjusted to pH 7.2 …

Lectin from black turtle bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) was extracted and purified by reverse
micellar extraction (RME) method. Response surface methodology (RSM) was used to …