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Gram Flour

I guess try it and see... it's only ground up chick peas rather than ground up wheat, so will still be quite a lot of carbs, as @Kernow Debra says, but your body may react differently to it.

Personally, I love me some chick peas, but at least for the present, I have to stay away from them, on the other hand - I do relate to the quest for useable flour.
 
I have been told that for some reason gram flour doesn't give quite the same “hit” as grain flour owing to how it is processed in the digestive system. I was wondering how true that is?
 
Kernow Debra said:
Gram flour is still best part of 60g carbs per 100g so only slightly better.
Have you looked at these?
Lupin flour- 9g
Coconut flour 12g
Almond flour 6g
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Yes. I need to lay off almonds as they contain high levels of oxylates (kidney stones).

I have used almond flour a good deal until recently.

I have not really heard of lupin flour.
 
Gram flour is naturally gluten free, so will certainly return different result when used in cooking/baking. Of course, if you are OK with gluten, then you could always add wheat gluten to any baked products.

Having avoided wheat and gluten for years, I couldn't comment or even guess how a pizza base might turn out. Onion bhajis? Oh yes. :)
 
DonRodg said:
I have been told that for some reason gram flour doesn't give quite the same “hit” as grain flour owing to how it is processed in the digestive system. I was wondering how true that is?
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I haven't tried it but it may be worth doing so.
While chick peas are pretty high carb, I eat quite a lot of hummus and it doesn't raise my blood glucose nearly as much as you'd expect from the carb count. So there might be something to this.
AndBreathe said:
Onion bhajis? Oh yes. :)
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I've never even seen an onion bhaji but I'm going to try this out, they look amazing on google!
Let's hope they're as easy on my diabetes as hummus is.
 
Antje77 said:
I've never even seen an onion bhaji but I'm going to try this out, they look amazing on google!
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Onion bhajis are awesome
I probably have some insulin for them, but not a lot as there's generally not too much gram flour on them anyway (well unless they're really awesome and I have a lot :))
 
Antje77 said:
I haven't tried it but it may be worth doing so.
While chick peas are pretty high carb, I eat quite a lot of hummus and it doesn't raise my blood glucose nearly as much as you'd expect from the carb count. So there might be something to this.

I've never even seen an onion bhaji but I'm going to try this out, they look amazing on google!
Let's hope they're as easy on my diabetes as hummus is.
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Any veg is fab in a little besan/gram flour batter. Maybe also try (al dente) cooked cauliflower florets To be best, the batter is a thin coating, so nothing like battered fish.

You can add any season/spices you like.
 
Give it a go and see. I went wheat free for a year many years ago, nothing to do with diabetes, just an experiment, and did make flat breads and flat-bread pizza using gram flour. Just don't expect your pizza to taste like pizza. On that basis, maybe give some of those other flours mentioned by others a try.

As for some others, I seem to be able to dig into hummus without issue. Some clearly don't. Try, test, see.
 
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