Food Science

Which of the following foods is known as Poor Man's Meat?

• Meat

• Egg

• Fruits

• Pulses

The presence of ..................................... in legumes produces flatulence in human beings.

Brief on germination of pulses.

Which among the following factors does NOT affect the cooking quality of pulses?

• Composition

• Colour

• Soaking

• Phytin content

The calories in pulses is approximately the same as in cereals

• True

• False

Cooking of pulses results in

• softening the cell wall of the pulses

• reduces the anti-nutritional factors like trypsin inhibitors

• increases B-complex vitamins

• all the above

Pulses is rich in an amino acid called....

The year ......................... was declared by the UN General Assembly as the International Year of Pulses.