Pulses Are Packed With Goodness - Five Cool Things You Should Know About Them TC_Africa: Africa WorldPulsesDay
First, for clarification,"legumes" and"pulses" have different meanings."Legumes" are all plants belong to the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae, while"pulses" are the dried seeds of legume plants. Pulses include beans, lentils and chickpeas.
One reason that legume plants offer such promise in ending hunger is that they don't need good soil or nitrogen fertilisers. Plants need nitrogen to build important molecules such as protein and DNA. Most legumes can thrive in poor soil by fixing nitrogen gas from the air for their own use. This happens through symbiotic interaction with friendly bacteria known as rhizobia. The rhizobia are housed inside structures called nodules on the plant's roots.
Thanks to their nitrogen-fixing ability, pulses are nutritional powerhouses: high in protein and fibre, and low in fat. But that's not the only interesting thing about legumes and pulses. In honour of World Pulses Day 2023, I would like to highlight five pulses that have unique properties and stories.The African yam bean offers two servings of food: beans and underground tubers. The tubers have higher protein content than any non-legume tuber crops like potato and cassava, and the beans are also high in protein.
when the beans were cooked with amaranthus, telfaria or cassava leaves to feed the malnourished in war-affected areas.
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