The effects of soaking, cooking,
and industrial dehydration treat
ments on soluble carbohydrates,including raffinose fa
mily oligosaccharides (RFOs),
and also on total dietary fiber (TDF), insolubledietary fiber (IDF),
and soluble (SDF) dietary fiber fractions were studied in legu
mes (lentil
andchickpea). Ciceritol
and stachyose were the
main
![](/i<font color=)
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and lentil, respectively.The processing involved a drastic reduction of soluble carbohydrates of these legu
mes, 85% in thecase of lentil
and 57% in the case of chickpea. The processed legu
me flours presented low residuallevels of
![](/i<font color=)
mages/gifchars/alpha.gif" BORDER=0>-galactosides, which are advisable for people with digestive proble
ms. Processing oflegu
mes involved changes in dietary fiber fractions. A general increase of IDF (27-36%) due to theincrease of glucose
and Klason lignin was observed. However, a different behavior of SDF wasexhibited during ther
mal dehydration, this fraction increasing in the case of chickpea (32%)
anddecreasing in the case of lentil (27%). This is probably caused by the different structures
andco
mpositions of the cell wall networks of the legu
mes.