The Chickpea plant is a one-year plant and a short bush of the legume family, whose height reaches about 30 cm. Its branches are thin, its tiny leaves consist of 13 to 17 small, toothed leaflets, and its flowers are white with purple veins or shapes. Usually one to three peas are formed in each pea pod.
Chickpea is one of the oldest and most nutritious legumes. Chickpeas are used to prepare a variety of salads, sauces, bread, etc. One of its properties is that it is high in fiber, and through this method, it helps the health of the organs and prevents heart diseases.
Among the most famous of these dishes, we can mention all kinds of Iranian dishes, including hummus, falafel, baba ganoush, etc.
This plant has dozens of different agricultural varieties that have different colors, shapes and characteristics.
Types of Chickpea
There are two types of chickpeas: yellow chickpeas mostly in the Middle East and North America and black chickpeas (grown in India, Pakistan and Ethiopia).
How to include peas in your diet
Chickpeas are available all year round. You can find them dried, canned or packaged in grocery stores. And since they have a nutty texture, they are easy to include in one’s diet.
- I know how to throw chickpeas in a bean salad with other legumes for a meal.
- You can use chickpea flour to cook your favorite dishes.
- You can add chickpeas to your vegetable soup.
- You can even mix chickpeas with your favorite spice in a delicious meal or snack.
- Or eat peas! Add them to your burger and enjoy a nutritious meal. If you don’t know how to cook chickpeas, well, it’s simple. You can boil them or even cook them along with your other dishes. They go well with almost anything you eat
The healing properties of chickpeas
- Treatment of fungal infection
- Help to lose weight
- Help increase digestion
- Useful for pregnant women
- For women’s health
- Help maintain blood sugar
- To improve cardiovascular health
- To prevent cancer
- To reduce cholesterol
- For bone health
- For kidney stones
- To help treat jaundice
- To improve eye health
- For the immune system
- To reduce the risk of inflammation
- Strengthening the digestive system
- Removing skin wrinkles
Properties of cooked peas in women
The consumption of Chickpea reduces the symptoms of menopause in women. This food contains phytoestrogens that can help physical health. Reduce the risk of breast cancer.
High consumption of chickpeas
Chickpeas are high in fiber and may cause stomach spasms. May cause allergic reactions. Reported symptoms of pea include itchy skin, nausea, headache, hives, and cough.
Calories and nutritional value of raw and cooked chickpeas
Chickpea are widely used in Indian cuisine and to prepare curry. One of the popular vegetarian food of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is chickpeas. In Chinese medicine, legumes are consumed with rice or other grains. The calorie of uncooked and raw chickpeas is 364 kcal.
If chickpeas are cooked with seasoned salt, it has about 164 kcal. Peas contain micronutrients and macronutrients that make up its nutritional value. The nutritional value of chickpeas is different in raw and cooked form
Nutritional value table of raw chickpeas
| The main constituent | Amount per 100 grams |
| energy (calories) | 364 kcal |
| carbohydrate | 60.65 grams |
| Protein | 19.30 grams |
| fat | 6.04 grams |
| Water | 11.53 grams |
| fiber | 17.40 grams |
| sugar Loaf | 10.70 grams |
| Cholesterol | 0.00 mg gm |
Raw pea vitamins
| The name of the vitamin | Amount per 100 grams |
| Vitamin A | 3.00 micrograms |
| Vitamin D | 0.00 µg |
| Vitamin E | 0.82 mg |
| Vitamin K | 9.00 micrograms |
| Vitamin C | 4.00 mg |
| Thiamine (B1) | 0.48 mg |
| Riboflavin (B2) | 0.21 mg |
| Niacin (B3) | 1.54 mg |
| Choline (B4) | 95.20 mg |
| pantothenic acid (B5) | 1.59 mg |
| Vitamin B6 | 0.54 mg |
| Folate (B9) | 557.00 micrograms |
| Vitamin B12 | 0.00 mg |
Minerals of raw peas
| The name of the mineral | Amount per 100 grams |
| Calcium | 105.00 mg g |
| iron | 6.24 mg g |
| magnesium | 115.00 mg gm |
| phosphorus | 366.00 mg g |
| potassium | 875.00 mg g |
| sodium | 24.0 mg g |
| Roy | 3.43 mg g |
| copper | 0.85 mg g |
| Manganese | 2.20 mg g |
| selenium | 8.20 micrograms |
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