UM TodayUniversity of Saskatchewan – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 CBC Saskatchewan: Turning prairie pulses into flour at the University of Manitoba https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-saskatchewan-turning-prairie-pulses-into-flour-at-the-university-of-manitoba/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-saskatchewan-turning-prairie-pulses-into-flour-at-the-university-of-manitoba/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:00:35 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=207968 Turning prairie pulses into flour at the University of Manitoba]]> When most of us visit the baking isle in our local grocery store, we head straight for the wheat flour.

But a team of researchers at the University of Manitoba are trying to give us more options by turning pulses like lentils and chickpeas into flour.

Head researcher Chitra Sivakumar joins host Shauna Powers to explain how the synchrotron light source at the University of Saskatchewan is helping with that.

To listen to the conversation, please visit the link here with CBC Saskatchewan.

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