1 Introduction The food industry has seen a recent increase in plant-centric diets, increasing the demand for plant-based meat analogs (J. Zhang et al. 2021). Many people have begun to change their lifestyles from getting protein from animal sources to plant sources because of environmental, health, and ethical reasons (Rubio et al. 2020; Y. Zhang and Ryu 2023). Most plant-based meat analogs in the market are made from wheat, soy, and, just recently, pulse proteins (Chen et al.