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Lizarazo, Clara; Santanen, Arja; Stoddard, Fred. |
Grain legumes have excellent nutritional quality that makes them a staple ingredient for feeding ruminants, pigs and poultry. Legumes are known for their high protein content, and although they are low in the sulphur-containing amino acids and tryptophan, they have a high content of lysine; thus they are an ideal supplement to cereal-based diets and food products (Duranti & Cius 1997). Legumes have many beneficial effects in human diet. There is potential and sufficient farmer interest to establish grain legume crops in the Nordic-Baltic region through screening imported germplasm for adaptation. There are many potential uses of legume seeds as functional ingredients, thus further research is needed to design legume-supplemented food... |
Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food quality and human health. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18310/1/Lizarazo.pdf |
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