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Chickpeas in cookies may sound strange but trust me, it works. These cookies are the perfect morning or afternoon snack, with the decent protein and fibre content from the chickpeas and peanut butter balancing out the sugar to manage blood sugar levels. This is important if you want to be able to concentrate, support a healthy mood and avoid energy crashes, tantrums and tears – for both kids and parents alike.
The cookies are also made from whole food ingredients to ensure you get lasting energy and maximum nutrition while snacking. Real ingredients for healthy and happy bodies. These chickpea, peanut butter and dark chocolate chip cookies are also gluten and dairy free – if using dairy free dark chocolate and many are if they are 80% cocoa or higher – making them suitable for those avoiding gluten and dairy in the diet.
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Food As Medicine
✓ Chickpeas
Chickpeas have to be one of my favourite prebiotic legumes for feeding a healthy gut. This is because they travel to the large intestine where they feed our good bacteria and produce beneficial compounds that support good gut health, blood sugar regulation, mineral absorption and can reduce inflammation.
Early research is also showing that chickpea consumption in the diet can boost a beneficial bacterium that lives in our gut called Faecalibacterium prausnitzii – fancy name for a good guy that has great butyrate producing activity needed for gut and microbiota health (1).
✓ Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate, that is 80% or higher in cocoa solids, is high in proanthocyanidins – these are polyphenols that come from plant foods and can have beneficial roles in the gut. Proanthocyanidins are prebiotics that can encourage the growth of our beneficial bacteria such as Bifidobacterium species and Lactobacillus species. They also have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antimicrobial properties that can interfere with unfavourable pathogens in the mouth and stomach (2).
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