MINERALS, TRACE ELEMENTS AND FLAVONOIDS CONTENT IN WHITE AND COLOURED KIDNEY BEAN

<div style="mso-element: frame; mso-element-frame-width: 498.1pt; mso-element-frame-height: 208.25pt; mso-element-frame-vspace: 3.1pt; mso-element-wrap: auto; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: page; mso-element-left: 52.45pt; mso-element-top: 55.2pt; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">The aim</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">of the study was to determine the contents of mineral elements (Ca, K, Mg, N, P), trace elements (Cu, Fe, Mn, Cd, Pb, Ni, Co, Cr, and Zn), and certain phenolic compounds (flavonoids, isoflavones) in the fourteen varieties of cultivated raw kidney beans (</span><em><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">Phaseolus vulgaris</span></em><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">L.)</span><em><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">.</span></em><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">Heavy metals and mineral elements were analyzed by AAS methods, phenolics were detected by HPLC. Compared with vegetables, legumes proved to be a good source of many minerals and elements, e.g., the contents of K, Mg, P, Fe, and Zn varied in the ranges 13.02 - 23.08 g.kg^-1, 1.41 - 2.52 g.kg^-1, 3.81 - 5.26 g.kg^-1, 0.064 - 0.121 g.kg^-1, and 0.026 - 0.037 g.kg^-1</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">dw, respectively. Kidney beans, both species,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black; mso-fareast-language: SK;">contained no or few amounts of phenolics (only four cultivars) and the levels of kaempferol and apigenin were comparable to isoflavone genistein and quite higher than isoflavon daidzein content.<br /> <br /> </span><strong><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: #111111; mso-fareast-language: SK;">doi:10.5219/116</span></strong></p></span></div>