Chickpea flour

Flour

Chickpea flour is made from finely milled dried chickpeas, giving it a pale golden colour and a mild, nutty flavour, and it is naturally gluten-free. It provides roughly twice the protein of wheat flour, along with iron and folate, and it is a good source of fibre, which contributes to normal bowel function. Whisk it into batters for savoury pancakes and socca, use it to bind fritters and flatbreads, thicken soups and stews, or bake with it in place of wheat flour.

Polyols

SorbitolNot a source

Source: Not a source of sorbitol or excess fructose (structural classification)

What this means

This is chickpea flour's own sorbitol content, not a recipe amount. Sorbitol is a polyol — a type of sugar alcohol — calculated from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.20 g threshold (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.

Sugars

Total fructoseNot yet analysed

Excess fructoseNot a source

Source: Not a source of excess fructose (structural classification); total fructose not measured

What this means

These are chickpea flour's own fructose figures, not a recipe amount. Total fructose is how much fructose the food contains. Excess fructose is fructose minus glucose, counted only when positive, since glucose helps the body absorb fructose — it is the figure behind the "Low fructose" filter and the recipe figures. When measured, both come from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.40 g threshold of excess fructose (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.

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