About the project

In the 2016 International Year of Pulses program, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations aimed at increasing the public awareness on the importance of pulses for food security and nutrition.

The ProPulse project deals with current issues regarding human nutrition and plant preservation, being focused on pulses, which are dry seeds of legumes, recognized as a food choice with significant favorable influence for human health.

In order to address the FAO challenge one courageous aspiration of the project is to contribute to promoting pulse utilization in food industry that would further lead to increasing the demand for pulses as raw materials, thus sustaining the biodiversity.

The major objective of the project refers to assessing the possibilities of utilizing minimally processed flours from germinated pulses in food technology, as a raw material in order to develop functional clean label foodstuff.