Duality of Anti-nutritional Factors in Pulses

Plants naturally develop inherent defense mechanism by synthesizing of secondary metabolites to protect themselves from pests and pathogens in adverse environmental conditions. Some metabolites or substances pose deleterious effects on animals and human beings, thus referred as ‘Anti-Nutritional Factors (ANFs) and the same have also shown beneficial impact on human health. Hence judicious processing of ANF may prove an asset in agriculture, pharmacology and nutrition world.