Chickpea is an online celebrity in the field of fitness, and it is also deeply loved by vegetarians in off the charts, protein. Chickpea, also known as peach bean and chicken head bean, is named after its beak. It belongs to the wild pea family and is a rare variety of leguminous plants, which has been recorded in many ancient documents.

Distributed in the Mediterranean, Asia, Africa, America and other places. Introduced and cultivated in Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Taiwan Province and Inner Mongolia in China. It grows at an altitude of 2000-2700 meters.

Main value:

Edible: Chickpea starch has chestnut flavor and can be ground into mixed powder with wheat, which is mainly eaten. Chickpea powder and milk powder are added to make soybean milk powder. Chickpea powder can be used to make various snacks and unique salad dressing. Chickpea seeds can be made into bean paste, boiled beans, fried beans or fried beans, or canned. Mung beans and young leaves can also be eaten as vegetables.

Feed: Chickpea seed is also an excellent protein feed, and it is a refined feed for mules and horses after grinding. Stems and leaves are good feed for cattle.

Economy: Chickpea starch is an excellent material for sizing and polishing cotton, wool and silk textile raw materials, and also an industrial adhesive. Indigo dyes can be extracted from leaves.

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