Composition of underexploited Indian pulses. Comparison with common legumes

摘要: Abstract There is increasing interest in finding new food sources to alleviate malnutrition developing countries. Moth beans and horse gram are two underexploited Indian legumes growing adverse conditions but their composition little-known. Total resistant starch (RS), dietary fibre (DF) soluble sugars including oligosaccharides were determined, along with protein, fat, ash polyphenols. They compared other common Asian Western countries: black gram, green haricot chickpeas. No apparent differences among the proximate compositions observed. All samples rich DF (18–31% d.m.), made mainly of insoluble DF, whilst RS varied between 3.4 8.3%. Oligosaccharides main all legumes; chickpeas sucrose. had a high content non-digestible carbohydrates (37–48% carbohydrates). In summary, from study, moth good nutritional quality, making them suitable for more extensive uses.