Nutritional value of chickpeas

Nutritional value

The isoflavones contained in chickpeas have a great impact on women's health. They are active phytoestrogens, which can delay female cell aging, maintain skin elasticity, and reduce female menopausal syndrome.

Chickpeas contain the trace element chromium, which plays an important role in the body's sugar metabolism and fat metabolism. Chromium is a component of glucose tolerance factor (GTF), which has the effect of controlling diabetes, lowering blood sugar, preventing and slowing down the complications of diabetes.

The polyunsaturated fatty acids contained in chickpeas can promote cholesterol metabolism, prevent lipid deposition in the liver and arterial walls, reduce platelet clotting ability, and prevent thrombosis.

Chickpea grains also contain adenine, choline, inositol, starch, sucrose, glucose and so on. Among them, the protein content is particularly rich, and it also contains fat, carbohydrates, cellulose and more than 10 kinds of amino acids, of which all the 8 essential amino acids are possessed by the human body.