Evaluation of a protein‐rich vegetable mixture for prevention of protein‐calorie malnutrition

Abstract

Experiments showed that a crushed groundnut–chickpea–sesame (3:2:1) mixture is an adequate source of protein comparable with casein as a constituent of a 20% protein diet for promoting growth and nitrogen retention in young rats, synthesis of their serum proteins and haemoglobin, their maturation, reproduction, lactation and breeding of three generations of normal healthy animals.

Non-animal proteins as cutting-edge ingredients to reformulate animal-free foodstuffs: Present status and future perspectives

“…peanut, soy and wheat proteins) (Kelley and Baum 1953;Hove, Carpenter, and Harrel 1945;Arthur et al 1948). Researchers went further, investigating isolation procedures of proteins, particularly on soybean for a better amino acids composition in the sixties (Byers 1961;Pomeranz 1965;Szmelcman and Guggenheim 1967) and to partially replace animal proteins in food applications, such as the meat industry by the seventies (Hanafy, Seddik, and Aref 1970;Childers 1972;Milner 1974). At that time, the use of vegetal proteins was undesirable because, in some cases, it was closely related to fraudulent actions in animal protein replacement.…”