Chickpea Sprouts
By Sid Khullar • May 14th, 2008 • Category: Recipes
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Did you know chickpea sprouts are much healthier than the original chickpea itself? I guess so. Do you know why?
Sprouts are very nutritious because they contain all elements a plant needs for life and growth. The endosperm of the seed is the storehouse of carbohydrates, protein, and oil. When the seed germinates, these become predigested amino acids and natural sugars upon which the plant embryo feeds as it grows to maturity. When used as food, the life force is released and supplies the energy which is capable of generating healthy cells in the body and supplying us with new vigor and life. Used as an adjunct to the diet, sprouts can retard the aging process, since they contain ample amounts of male and female hormones, available in their most assimilable form. Processed foods often lack the vitamins and minerals necessary to a balanced diet. Research shows that, in sprouts, one finds one of the foods highest in vitamin and mineral content. Sprouts should, therefore, occupy a prominent place in the diet. Among their other virtues is the fact that the seeds are low in cost, can be stored indefinitely, and are easy to grow, and, when sprouted, increase their nutritional value many times. Source: Sprouting for health |
Sid Khullar is a self confessed food addict who likes cooking, writing and photography... and travel, if it gets him closer to a good book and interesting food.
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I love sprouting beans. I like to do a combination of chickpeas, adzuki beans and lentils. So delicious.
adzuki beans sound interesting! we dont get them here.
I suspect that you do get them, if you look in Wikipedia you’ll see what they look like and will probably have a different name for them.
Actually, thats the first place I went to
They are the red beans that are used so much in Chinese cooking.
They will surely be available, but not easily as mostly people from the north east, who have chinese influences on their food, would be using them.
Hi, can you provide the amount of protein in 100 gms of chick pea sprouts…….Thx
@Sameer: I’m not sure about the sprouts, but chickpeas contain 8.86% of protein per unit of chickpeas – so that’s 8.86grams of protein in 100 grams of chick peas.