title: Anti-nutritional and toxic factors in food legumes: a review.
abstract: A comprehensive review on the presence of certain important anti-nutritional and toxic factors in food legumes has been conducted. These substances include proteolytic inhibitors, phytohemagglutinins, lathyrogens, cyanogenetic compounds, compounds causing favism, factors affecting digestibility and saponins. These factors are shown to be widely present in leguminous foods which are important constituents of the diet of a large section of the world's population, and particularly, of people in the developing countries.
authors.affiliation: Division of Agricultural Biochemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.
authors.forename: Y P
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D003296:Cooking; D004063:Digestion; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005236:Favism / Q000209:etiology; D006027:Glycosides / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D006856:Hydrogen Cyanide / Q000009:adverse effects; D007842:Lathyrism / Q000209:etiology; D010835:Phytohemagglutinins / Q000009:adverse effects; D037121:Plant Lectins; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D011480:Protease Inhibitors / Q000009:adverse effects; D012503:Saponins / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D006027:Glycosides; D010835:Phytohemagglutinins; D037121:Plant Lectins; D011480:Protease Inhibitors; D012503:Saponins; D006856:Hydrogen Cyanide