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On soaking in water which seed will imbibe water faster wheat or grams and why ?

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Proteins have a very high imbibing capacity then starch less and cellulose least. That is why proteinaceous pea seeds swell more on imbibition than starchy wheat seeds.So pea grams imbib more than wheat .

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