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An anti-nutritional factor is a substance which, when present in human or animal foods, reduces growth. Examples are phytate, protease inhibitors (notably soybean trypsin inhibitor) and excessive dietary fiber.

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the antinutritional factors are most probably occer in various pulses. there may different tyes of anti nutritional factors they may be protease inhibitor(kunitz inhibitor and bowman-birk inhibitor), saponins,allergens,cynogens etc.