Journal
FOODS
Volume 11, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/foods11152299
Keywords
PDCAAS; DIAAS; in vitro digestibility; food processing; legume proteins; emerging food processing technology
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- University Research Chairs program of the University of Ottawa, Canada
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2018-06839]
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This review discusses the factors affecting the digestibility of legume seeds, including antinutritional factors and processing methods. By exploring the neutralization of antinutrients and the impact of processing methods, the utilization of legume proteins can be improved, providing directions for future research.
The increased consumption of legume seeds as a strategy for enhancing food security, reducing malnutrition, and improving health outcomes on a global scale remains an ongoing subject of profound research interest. Legume seed proteins are rich in their dietary protein contents. However, coexisting with these proteins in the seed matrix are other components that inhibit protein digestibility. Thus, improving access to legume proteins often depends on the neutralisation of these inhibitors, which are collectively described as antinutrients or antinutritional factors. The determination of protein quality, which typically involves evaluating protein digestibility and essential amino acid content, is assessed using various methods, such as in vitro simulated gastrointestinal digestibility, protein digestibility-corrected amino acid score (IV-PDCAAS), and digestible indispensable amino acid score (DIAAS). Since most edible legumes are mainly available in their processed forms, an interrogation of these processing methods, which could be traditional (e.g., cooking, milling, extrusion, germination, and fermentation) or based on emerging technologies (e.g., high-pressure processing (HPP), ultrasound, irradiation, pulsed electric field (PEF), and microwave), is not only critical but also necessary given the capacity of processing methods to influence protein digestibility. Therefore, this timely and important review discusses how each of these processing methods affects legume seed digestibility, examines the potential for improvements, highlights the challenges posed by antinutritional factors, and suggests areas of focus for future research.
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