Chickpeas (chickpeas in English) are edible seeds belonging to the group of legumes (Fabaceae botanical family); they are more or less rounded but with a slightly lumpy surface and more pointed on one vertex, white-beige, black or green in color.
Produced from Cicer arietinum, an annual herbaceous plant of the Faboidae subfamily, no more than half a meter high and probably native to Turkey, chickpeas have been part of the diet of many populations since ancient times; the finds indicate its presence in the Middle East already 7500 years ago.
