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Importance of Pulses in Diet
Pulses may be defined as the dried edible seeds of cultivated legumes. They belong to the family of peas, beans and lentils. The English word pulse is taken from the Latin puls, meaning pottage or thick pap. The pulses are a large family and various species are capable or surviving in very different climates and soils.
Traces of pulse crops have been found from ancient times in archaeological sites of both the Old and New Worlds and they appear to have been among the earliest domesticated plants. These findings indicate an almost simultaneous arrival of cereals and pulses around 10,000 BC.
Pulses are cultivated in all parts of the world, and they occupy an important place in human diet. They however, make a much more important contribution to the diet of all classes of society in the East than in the West. In India especial I y, people who are mostly vegetarian depend largely on cereals arid pulses as their staple food, which serve as the main source of dietary protein and energy.