“…The best pasta products are traditionally manufactured with only durum wheat because of excellent rheological properties of the dough and the superior color, cooking quality and consumer acceptance of the product (Dexter & Matson, 1979). Specially blended pasta products with nondurum wheat ingredients such as inulin, guar gum, pea fiber, locust bean gum, xanthan gum, bamboo fiber, bglucan (Brennan & Tudorica, 2007;Brennan, Victor, & Tudorica, 2004) and whey protein concentrate (Prabhasankar, Jyotsna, Indrani, & Venkateswara Rao, 2007) that enhance the nutritional properties of the resulting pasta are also known. The legumes like ''urad'' and mung bean can be utilized to improve nutritional quality of pasta (Galvez, Resurreccion, & Ware, 1995;Sarabhai, 1992).…”