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There is a growing concern about a healthier life style and healthy foods. Eating habits are changing quickly making agro industry adapt to new products, ensuring healthy and nutritious foods. On this context, the seeds germination process is an old and effective method, which is improving and expanding the nutritional quality of foods (López-Amorós et al., 2006). On the process are formed considerable endogenous hydrolysis enzymes, modifying the grain structure, which means, large molecules will reduce into small molecules as simple sugar, peptides and amino acids. These small molecules will be formed from starch, non-starch polysaccharides and proteins (large molecules). As result, also, occur an increase in nutrients content such as vitamins, minerals and antioxidant capacity due to the bioactive compounds formed in the germination process. (Hassani et al., 2016).