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. 2017 Sep 21;1(10):e001610. doi: 10.3945/cdn.117.001610

TABLE 3.

The 652 food metabolites identified from 3 complementary legume foods classified by metabolic pathways

Number of identified metabolites
Corn-soybean blend Common bean Cowpea
Metabolic pathways
 Amino acid 114 121 128
 Carbohydrate 26 26 26
 Cofactors and vitamins 24 19 20
 Energy 12 12 13
 Lipid 164 179 183
 Nucleotide 32 49 47
 Peptide 12 16 22
 Xenobiotic
  Benzoate metabolism 3 4 4
  Chemical 7 7 7
  Drug 3 3 3
  Food and plant components 46 47 56
Total number of metabolites 443 483 509