Providing safe, nutritious, and wholesome food for poor and undernourished populations
has been a major challenge for the developing world. Acute shortage, unreliable supply …

Mucuna pruriens var. utilis, an underutilized tropical legume has a nutritional quality
comparable to soya beans and other conventional legumes as it contains similar proportions …

The present study describes the effects of germination on nonnutritional factors and
antioxidant activity in the nonconventional legumes Vigna unguiculata (cowpea), Canavalia …

Influence of light exposure during germination on structural and soluble carbohydrates
including total dietary fibre (TDF), insoluble dietary fibre (IDF) and soluble (SDF) dietary fibre …

The wild yam tubers consumed by the tribes Kanikkars/Palliyars of South-Eastern slopes of
Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu (Dioscorea alata, D. bulbifera var vera, D. esculenta, D …

The effects of various domestic processing methods such as soaking, cooking and
autoclaving on the levels of certain antinutritional factors and in vitro protein digestibility of …

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Bauhinia purpurea (Fabaceae) is a medicinal
plant traditionally used to treat various ailments, including ulcers. In order to establish …

Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …

Acacia sl. is a newly revised genus whose plant species are quintessential in the
pantropical, arid, and hunger-prone areas. They provide multiple ecosystem services and a …

In the present study, the total free phenolic content, antioxidant activity and type II diabetes-
related enzyme inhibition properties of methanolic extracts of certain promising immature …