Chickpea flour // benefits and properties
By: Socca'S Corner
Tags: Socca, Chickpea, Properties, Veggie, Vegan

Chickpea flour is an optimal option if you need to remove gluten from your diet since it perfectly replaces wheat flour. Chickpea flour is a type of flour obtained from the crushing of dried chickpeas, ideal for its nutritional benefits within a healthy diet and for its properties it is unique to celiacs because it does not contain gluten.

If you follow a vegetarian diet or a vegan lifestyle, it is quite likely that you have already heard or even tried chickpea flour , a food not as common as other varieties of flour but just as useful and nutritious, in addition to standing out precisely for being tremendously delicious.

Dried chickpeas are used directly for this purpose, which when crushed become a kind of fine yellow powder with a characteristic chickpea flavour.

It is a much more aromatic and tasty flour than, for example, common wheat flour.

The nutritional benefits of chickpea flour

From a nutritional point of view, chickpea flour is a very nutritious food , especially rich in vitamins of group B , among which we can mention vitamin B1 or thiamine, B2 or riboflavin, B3 or niacin, B6 and folic acid or B9 (a vitamin incidentally during pregnancy for the formation, development and growth of the baby).

Also it provides other vitamins, among which distinguish the vitamin A, C and E .

However, we can summarize the composition of chickpea flour per 100 grams in the following section:

Calories 368 kcal.

Protein 22,9 g.

Carbohydrates 57,9 g.

Total fat 6,69 g.

VitaminsMineralsVitamin A41 IU.Sodium64 mg.Vitamin B10,48 mg.Match318 mg.Vitamin B20,10 mg.Calcium105 mg.Vitamin B31,7 mg.Potassium845 mg.Vitamin B60,5 mg.Magnesium166 mg.Vitamin B9437 mcgIron4,6 mg.Vitamin E0,23 mg

The properties of chickpea flour

Gluten free

Unlike common wheat flour, chickpea flour stands out for being a type of flour that has no gluten, mainly for something very simple: it is obtained from chickpeas, and this delicious food does not contain gluten in its composition.

If we take into account that chickpea flour is often used to cook doughs, such as sweets, breads and empanadas, there is no doubt that it becomes an excellent alternative to common wheat flour, ideal especially for those with intolerance or allergies.

Ideal for vegans

If you follow a vegan lifestyle , chickpea flour becomes an almost excellent substitute for eggs , not only from a nutritional point of view, but in terms of uses in the kitchen.

It becomes an ideal ingredient to make an eggless potato omelette , replacing it with chickpea flour, water or beer, which allows it to obtain a consistency, texture and juiciness quite similar to that of a common potato omelette.

From a nutritional point of view we must not forget that the egg is rich in proteins of high biological value (also considered to be of good quality), while chickpea flour provides interesting amounts of vegetable protein.

Useful against constipation

Chickpea flour is extremely rich in fiber, which gives it useful benefits against constipation, either to treat it naturally and help in the healing process or simply as a preventive. When we consume chickpea flour on a regular basis it helps regulate our bowel movements.

Helps lose weight

Chickpea flour is very rich in lecithin . Lecithin is a type of fat that helps the body to eliminate and get rid of those fats that are not really useful for our body, helping us to dilute them better with fat.

Its consumption is adequate both if a weight loss diet is followed with the aim of reducing weight, and if a healthy diet is followed in order to maintain it.

Lowers high cholesterol

In the case of high cholesterol, chickpea flour is a food as useful as it is adequate and also recommended.

Helps reduce high blood fat levels.

Interesting for diabetics

Chickpea flour is rich in complex carbohydrates, carbohydrates that stand out for being slow absorption, which means that they take longer to digest and do not produce sudden changes in glucose levels. Therefore, it is useful in case of people with diabetes who need to control glucose imbalances.

Beneficial for women:

Phytonutrients called saponins act as antioxidants to reduce the risk of breast cancer, prevent osteoporosis, and minimize hot flashes in postmenopausal women. Eating roasted chickpeas mixed with brown sugar and desi ghee helps cure leucorrhea. Drinking boiled water with chickpeas can prevent miscarriage.

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