Spain: Secrets of chickpea from Escacena to be one of the best legumes in the market

Chickpea has become the fashionable food. Added to its many nutritional properties and health benefits is the interest of consumers to recover traditional cuisine and the use of chickpeas in other formats such as salads, and especially hummus or chickpea cream has exploded. All this is generating a notable increase in the demand for this legume. But quality always makes the difference between one chickpea and another on the market. As incredible as it may seem, Spain imports chickpeas and legumes from other countries whose quality is far below the chickpea grown in our lands. Andalusia, for example, has one of the only two chickpeas that in Spain have the European quality certificate that provides the seal of a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI). It is the PGI 'Garbanzo de Escacena' that certifies since 2014 the superior quality and origin of the milky white chickpea, Extra category that is grown in a country territory between the provinces of Huelva and Seville, at the gates ...