Food & Nutrition

Arab Journal of Food & Nutrition
samples the alkaloid concentration exceeded 0.02%, still this concentration is regarded
safe from public health point of view. TLC and GC-MS showed that lupanine was the
main alkaloid for lupine. GC-MS showed that there were other minor alkaloids in
lupine such as α-isolupanine, oxylupanine, angustifoline.
The alkaloid content of the seeds debittered by water, 1% citric acid and 10%
sodium bicarbonate were below 0.02%, which is considered to be safe (