chana seeds

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The name “chickpea” traces back through the French chic he to cicer, Latin for “chickpea” (from which the Roman cognomen Cicero was taken). The Oxford English Dictionary lists a 1548 citation that reads, “Cicer may be named in English Cich, or ciche pease, after the Frenche tongue.”

The plant grows to 20—50 cm (8—20 in) high and has small, feathery leaves on either side of the stem. Chickpeas are a type of pulse, with one seedpod containing two or three peas. It has white flowers with blue, violet, or pink veins.

Sequencing of the chickpea genome has been completed for 90 chickpea genotypes, including several wild species. A collaboration of 20 research organizations, led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), sequenced CDC Frontier, a kabuli chickpea variety, and identified more than 28,0flll genes and several million genetic markers.

Chickpeas are a nutrient-dense food, providing rich content (20% or higher of the Daily Value, DV) of protein, dietary fibre, folate, and certain dietary minerals such as iron and phosphorus. Thiamin, vitamin B6, magnesium, and zinc contents are moderate, providing 10—l6″Z» of the DV. Chickpeas have a Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score of about 0.76, which is higher than many other legumes and cereals.

INDIAN NAME OF SPICES

English: chickpea, Hindi: chana, Tamil: Caṉā vitai

FOREIGN NAME OF SPICES

Spanish : semilla de chana, Moutarde German : Chana-Samen, Senap Arabic : budhur shana, Mosterd Italian : seme chana, Mostarda Russian : semena khany, Chinese : Chá nà zhǒngzǐ

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