An anti-nutritional factor is a substance which, when present in human or animal foods, reduces growth. Examples are phytate, protease inhibitors (notably soybean trypsin inhibitor) and excessive dietary fiber.
the antinutritional factors are most probably occer in various pulses. there may different tyes of anti nutritional factors they may be protease inhibitor(kunitz inhibitor and bowman-birk inhibitor), saponins,allergens,cynogens etc.
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