Content of Ash components in the Fresh and Preserved Broad Bean (Vicia faba v major)

Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals in Selected Organs of Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) and their Potential Use as Air Contamination Bioindicators

“…In the seeds of broad bean (Vicia faba var major), the concentrations of Cu and Zn [70,71] were similar to the results presented in this paper. The above data suggest that both Cd and Zn as microelements, due to their physiological functions, are stored in seeds and that air contamination is not one of their sources.…”

Effect of cooking and sterilisation on the composition of amino acids in immature seeds of flageolet bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivars

“…Differences in the content of amino acids between the cultivars Flaforte and Mona were statistically not significant (Table 1). As in the present investigation, cultivars of grass pea and of broad bean (Kmiecik, Lisiewska, & Jaworska, 1994) at a similar degree of maturity did not differ in the content of most amino acids.…”

“…In seeds of grass pea cooked after refrigerated storage, the content of most amino acids did not change, except for serine, alanine and methionine; any changes brought about by cooking depended on the cultivar . The investigations carried out by Kmiecik et al (1994Kmiecik et al ( , 1999 showed that changes brought about by thermal processing depended not only on the cultivar of broad bean, but also on the degree of seed maturity.…”

Zinc retention in vegetables according to the method of preparation for consumption

“…It was not possible to verify the zinc levels given for all the investigated species since the relevant data could not always be found in the literature. In cases in which significantly different levels of zinc were quoted by some authors, the differences were due to numerous factors -the year of investigation and the locality, the cultivar, the thickness, the size and the usable part -with differences of up to several dozen-fold recorded in the investigated material (Amaro et al 1998(Amaro et al , 1999Bhattacharjee et al 1998;Cheng and Ruichi 1998;Martinez et al 1998;Kmiecik et al 2000;Słupski et al 2005).…”

“…According to the literature, changes in zinc contents are dependent on the method and conditions of processing; these were observed reductions (Kmiecik et al 2000;Alajaji and El-Adawy 2006), lack of changes (Polo et al 1992;Słupski et al 2005;Lisiewska et al 2009) or increases in the zinc content (Khalil and Mansour 1995;Amaro et al 1999).…”