What are the benefits of chickpeas?
The chickpea, which is the favorite of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine, is a complete source of protein, fiber and carbohydrates. It has endless benefits for your health. With its high fiber content, it helps regulate digestion and blood sugar, maintains insulin and blood sugar at normal levels, prevents the development of diabetes, reduces the risk of heart diseases. Thanks to its richness in iron, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc and copper, it is considered one of the important nutrients for bone health. It is very difficult to get selenium naturally from fruits and vegetables because it does not exist naturally in them, but chickpeas appear as a legume rich in this mineral as well. Thanks to selenium, it provides regular functioning of thyroid hormone, regulation of liver enzymes, helps detoxification of cancer-causing toxins.
