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Pea flour is a valuable dietary product, provides complete nutrition, sufficient protein, vitamins and minerals, improves health, normalizes weight. Such a sconce
Pea flour is a valuable dietary product, provides complete nutrition, sufficient protein, vitamins and minerals, improves health, normalizes weight. Such flour can be easily prepared yourself like bold peas. The addition of even a small amount of it (10 - 20%) to ordinary wheat flour improves the taste and nutritional value of the product.
Pea flour is most often used to make donuts, vegetable meatballs, diet bread, salty and sweet pastries. In addition, in combination with powdered milk or in its pure form is used for the preparation of baby porridge.
The specificity of the product is that when frying it does not absorb fat (regardless of whether it is animal or vegetable).
The quality of the protein in the composition of pea flour is often compared with some types of meat, but at the same time in terms of vitamins and minerals it often surpasses them. Another advantage of the product is that compared to wheat flour, pea flour has 2-3 times higher biological value. It is much richer in valuable substances such as fiber, vitamins A and E, pantothenic acid, calcium, zinc , potassium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus .
The benefits of pea flour for human health are obvious, as it is a natural source of vital amino acids (lysine and threonine). In addition, the product contains the substance pyridoxine, which is directly involved in the processes of degradation and synthesis of these amino acids. Deficiency of the substance can cause seizures and dermatitis.
Pea flour also contains a large amount of selenium . According to experts in the field of nutrition and medicine, this element can be considered as an anticancer agent.