“…The NI value is found to be higher than the reported values 25, 35, 43 and 59 for milk, pork, beef and chicken, respectively (Crisan & Sands, 1978). All the calculated nutritional characteristics are higher than those reported for other oilseed proteins (Bhagya & Sastry, 2003;Puttaraj, Bhagya, Murthy, & Singh, 1994). The C-PER of mustard protein isolate was higher (2.57) than the meal (2.35) and comparable to reported PER value of 2.5 for casein (Satterlee et al, 1979).…”