Title: Nutritional and Antinutritional Assessment of Mucuna atropurpurea DC: An Underutilized Tribal Pulse
Abstract: Two accessions of the underutilized legume, Mucuna atropurpurea DC, collected from two different locations of Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu were analyzed for proximate composition, mineral profiles, vitamins (niacin and ascorbic acid) fatty acid profiles, amino acid profiles of total seed protein, in vitro protein digestibility and certain antinutritional factors. Both the accessions of Mucuna atropurpurea contained higher amounts of crude protein and crude lipid when compared with most of the commonly consumed pulses. The fatty acid profiles of both the accessions revealed that the seed lipids contained higher concentration of palmitic and linoleic acid. Amino acid profiles of Mucuna atropurpurea revealed that the seed proteins contained relatively higher levels of essential amino acid, threonine, valine, isoleucine, tyrosine and phenylalanine compared with the FAO/WHO (1991) requirement pattern. Antinutritional substances like total free phenolics, tannins, L-DOPA, phytic acid, hydrogen cyanide, trypsin inhibitor activity, oligosaccharides and phytohaemagglutinating activity were investigated.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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