Pulses: Nutritious seeds for a sustainable future

By F. Pathan. 2016

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Lentils, chickpeas, beans, peas, grass peas, lupins, fava beans and other pulses will be the protagonists of 2016, proclaimed by the United Nations "International Year of Pulses", with the aim of increasing awareness on the importance of eating pulses for human health and food security. Their high nutritional value, in fact, makes them perfect to combat malnutrition, understood both as lack of food and as, on the contrary, excess intake of high-calorie food. Despite being an excellent food that should never be missing in our diet, pulses today appear increasingly rarely on our tables. The modern diet is in fact based on a greater use of animal proteins and the pace of life today has oriented consumer choices to convenience foods. Let's see together what makes these seeds so special and what are the reasons why they should always be present in our diet.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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