Chickpea processing for sustainable food ingredients
What it found
Chickpea can be turned into healthy, sustainable ingredients for food and nutraceutical products.
Processing changes its composition, health properties and how it works in foods.
What they found
Chickpea composition
The composition of chickpea affects its use as a whole food or ingredient in formulated food.
Processing effects
Traditional and emerging processes convert chickpea into value-added differentiated food ingredients. These processes influence the composition, health-promoting properties and techno-functionality of chickpea.
Tailoring for markets
Chickpea ingredients can be tailored to fit traditional food applications and the growing plant-based meat and dairy alternative markets.
By-products
The review assesses possible uses of by-products from chickpea processing.
What the authors conclude
- They provide recommendations for future research to build a sustainable industry using chickpea as a value-added ingredient.
How it was done
Chickpea is playing an emerging role in providing healthy and sustainable plant-based ingredients for the food and nutraceutical industries.
What it can’t tell you
- We summarised it from the abstract only.
- This is a review of existing information, not a new study in people or animals. It cannot show direct health effects of eating chickpea or its ingredients.
Who paid
- Authors work at
- The University of Adelaide, Australia; Zhejiang University, China
The paper
- Title
- Processing to improve the sustainability of chickpea as a functional food ingredient
- Type
- ReviewThe authors read earlier studies and describe what they found. It isn’t a new study.
- Summarised from
- Abstract only
- Cite
- Augustin MA, Chen JY, Ye JH (2024). Processing to improve the sustainability of chickpea as a functional food ingredient. Journal of the science of food and agriculture. doi:10.1002/jsfa.13532PubMed 38619292DOI
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