Talk:Gram flour

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From this article, it reads: "Gram flour, not to be confused with Graham flour, also known as chana flour or besan is a staple ingredient in Indian cuisine. It consists of ground chana dal also known as Bengal grams in some localities, and it is used in various foods such as sweets and bombay mix. Besan is typically confused with chickpea flour.As stated above,besan is ground chana(NOT chickpea)dal.Chickpeas are larger and light brown in color and are used in making items like falafel.Chana are smaller and dark brown in color.Culinary quality of these two are very different."

However, when I visit the article for chickpea, there it states a contradiction: "The chickpea, chick pea, garbanzo bean, ceci bean, bengal gram, chana or channa (Cicer arietinum) is an edible legume..."

Therefore, there is an error in one or more of these 2 articles: The first article equates besan with gram flour, and ground chana dal. Also, article 1 states that this is different from chickpea flour.

The second article states that they are all the same.

--Hppboston 15:40, 26 December 2006 (UTC)Hppboston

[edit] Chana & Chick pea

These are all diferent variants of the same species Cicer arietinum, whose name changes in different countries. the different names given in some countries like in spain and india correspond to the english chickpea as long as these pulse were not widely eaten in england, and hence english language did not distinguish. Emilio Juanatey 15:44, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Chana dal = chick pea and kala chana = smaller, darker version of chick pea. Badagnani 23:17, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

At least in India and Pakistan Chana dal = yellow gram and Chana = chickpea. Kala chana would be a variant of chickpea, yes.

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