| With excellent nutritional benefits, including high levels of dietary fibre and complex carbohydrates, pulses are a "super food". They are excellent contributors to good health. Research on the health benefits of beans, peas, lentils and chickpeas and use of whole pulses and pulse flours is increasing interest in pulses as an important food ingredient. Pulses also play an important role in sustainable food production. Pulse crops supply their own nitrogen, using sunlight to power the conversion of this atmospheric gas into a form available to plants. This reduces the need for commercial nitrogen fertilizer where natural gas is used to power the conversion. The result is that pulse production lowers agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions from annual crop production. Pulses require half the total energy inputs of other crops, leaving a reduced environmental footprint for cropping systems that include pulses in the rotation. |
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