Abstract
The use of legumes as functional foods has gained increasing attention for the prevention and treatment of the so called non-communicable diseases that are highly prevalent worldwide. In this regard, biotechnological approaches for the enhancement of legumes’ nutritional and functional value have been extensively employed. In the present study, the process of germination increased several parameters of mung bean (Vigna radiata L.) functionality, including extract yield, total phenolic content and in vitro antioxidant capacity. In addition, 3-day-germinated mung bean proved to be an interesting source of dietary essential minerals and exhibited a greater variety of polyphenolic compounds compared to raw mung bean. These properties resulted in enhanced cytoprotective features of the 3-day mung bean extracts against radical oxygen species in human colorectal (HT29) and monocyte (U937) cell lines. Moreover, the antiproliferative effects were tested in different colon cancer cell lines, T84 and drug-resistant HCT-18, as well as in a non-tumor colon CCD-18 line. Altogether, our results demonstrate that the germination process improves the mung bean’s nutritional value and its potential as a functional food.
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Claim · model-written summary
Germination increased extract yield, total phenolic content and in vitro antioxidant capacity of mung bean.
- Taxon
- mung bean (Vigna radiata L.)
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Vigna radiatae1 - Treatment
- germinatione1
- Outcome
- extract yield, total phenolic content and in vitro antioxidant capacitye1
- Direction
- increasede1
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Verbatim
e1“the process of germination increased several parameters of mung bean (Vigna radiata L.) functionality, including extract yield, total phenolic content and in vitro antioxidant capacity”
Claim · model-written summary
3-day-germinated mung bean is an interesting source of dietary essential minerals.
- Taxon
- mung beanVigna radiatae2
- Organ / stage
- 3-day-germinatede2
- Outcome
- dietary essential mineralse2
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Verbatim
e2“3-day-germinated mung bean proved to be an interesting source of dietary essential minerals and exhibited a greater variety of polyphenolic compounds compared to raw mung bean”
Claim · model-written summary
3-day-germinated mung bean showed a greater variety of polyphenolic compounds than raw mung bean.
- Taxon
- mung beanVigna radiatae2
- Organ / stage
- 3-day-germinatede2
- Outcome
- variety of polyphenolic compoundse2
- Direction
- greatere2
- Comparator
- raw mung beane2
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e2“3-day-germinated mung bean proved to be an interesting source of dietary essential minerals and exhibited a greater variety of polyphenolic compounds compared to raw mung bean”
Claim · model-written summary
Extracts of 3-day mung bean enhanced cytoprotective features against radical oxygen species in human cell lines.
- Taxon
- mung beanVigna radiatae3
- Treatment
- 3-day mung bean extractse3
- Outcome
- cytoprotective featurese3
- Direction
- enhancede3
- Qualifier
- against radical oxygen speciese3
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Verbatim
e3“These properties resulted in enhanced cytoprotective features of the 3-day mung bean extracts against radical oxygen species in human colorectal (HT29) and monocyte (U937) cell lines”
Claim · model-written summary
Germination improved the nutritional value of mung bean.
- Taxon
- mung beanVigna radiatae4
- Treatment
- germination processe4
- Outcome
- nutritional valuee4
- Direction
- improvese4
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Verbatim
e4“Altogether, our results demonstrate that the germination process improves the mung bean’s nutritional value”
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