Phytate accumulation in vegetable-type soybean harvested at three reproductive stages

摘要

Consumers across the United States concerned with health and physical fitness are exploring alternative vegetable crops that can be incorporated into a low calorie nutritional diet. Vegetable-type soybean is very popular as a food in the Orient, where the incidence of heart disease is low. Vegetable-type soybean is also different from the mature soybean in flavor and texture (Morse, 1950) and is low in trypsin inhibitor (Gupta and Deodhar, 1975).