date:Dec 10, 2015
Soy is a legume cultivated worldwide for food and feed, and a well-established dietary source of plant-based protein. Nevertheless, soybeans are known to contain specific proteins that cause allergic reactions or that inhibit the absorption of other nutrients (so-called anti-nutritional proteins).
Researchers from the University of Arizona and the University of Illinois have bred a new variety of soy in which the levels of three proteins associated with their anti-nutritional and allergenic pro