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Nutritional quality and health benefits of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.): a review

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007114512000797
 
Title Nutritional quality and health benefits of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.): a review
 
Creator Jukanti, A K
Gaur, P M
Gowda, C L L
Chibbar, R N
 
Subject Chickpea
Food and Nutrition
 
Description Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important pulse crop grown and consumed all over the world, especially in the Afro-Asian countries.
It is a good source of carbohydrates and protein, and protein quality is considered to be better than other pulses. Chickpea has significant
amounts of all the essential amino acids except sulphur-containing amino acids, which can be complemented by adding cereals to the daily
diet. Starch is the major storage carbohydrate followed by dietary fibre, oligosaccharides and simple sugars such as glucose and sucrose.
Although lipids are present in low amounts, chickpea is rich in nutritionally important unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic and oleic
acids. b-Sitosterol, campesterol and stigmasterol are important sterols present in chickpea oil. Ca, Mg, P and, especially, K are also present
in chickpea seeds. Chickpea is a good source of important vitamins such as riboflavin, niacin, thiamin, folate and the vitamin A precursor
b-carotene. As with other pulses, chickpea seeds also contain anti-nutritional factors which can be reduced or eliminated by different
cooking techniques. Chickpea has several potential health benefits, and, in combination with other pulses and cereals, it could have
beneficial effects on some of the important human diseases such as CVD, type 2 diabetes, digestive diseases and some cancers. Overall,
chickpea is an important pulse crop with a diverse array of potential nutritional and health benefits.
 
Publisher CAB International Publishing
 
Date 2012
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
application/pdf
 
Language en
en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6107/2/BJN_Chickpea_Paper_Gaur_etal._2012_Review.pdf
http://oar.icrisat.org/6107/1/BJN_Gaur_et.al_2012.pdf
Jukanti, A K and Gaur, P M and Gowda, C L L and Chibbar, R N (2012) Nutritional quality and health benefits of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.): a review. British Journal of Nutrition, 108 (S1). S11-S26. ISSN 1475-2662