National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Chick peas, a legume crop grown in temperate and semiarid climatic condition is heavily infested by bruchids during storage, which results in the qualitative as well as quantitative loses. Insect infested legumes are consumed by unaware people after cooking because insects are not visible although the larval and pupil stages of insects are inside the grains. Holes in grains are only visible when adult insect comes out of the grain Present study was planned to evaluate physico –chemical properties, uric acid, carbohydrates, mineral, trypsin inhibitor activity and phytic acid content of processed bruchids infested chick pea at the graded levels of bruchids infestation (20, 40 and 60%). The results revealed that with increase in the level of infestation, significant increases (p ≤ 0.05) was observed in all the parameters, except for decreases in weight content density embedded larvae carbohydrates and true protein. Even cooking of insect infested chick pea could not improve the quality of legume. Only slight decrease was noted in uric acid phytic acid and trypsin inhibitors of Chick pea after cooking presence of insect excreta and body parts , legumes becomes unhygienic and should not be consumed even after processing.
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