Alternative approaches to the manufacture of plant protein products from grain legumes

A biotechnological method for the modification of grain legume meals (pea, faba bean) is proposed. The essence of this method is the inducing of bioch emical processes, which occur at the germination, through the treatment of a meal with an acid protease. Modified meals can replace soybean protein is olate as meat extenders. In particular, the modification of pea meal improv es the colour of combined meat products and eliminates their beany off-flav our. The concentration of six-carbon aldehydes in combined sausages is redu ced after the modification of pea meal.