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Fresh green garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas) taste like sweet peas in butter. They are delicious when steamed and are available in 4 different colors: beige, black, green, and red. Riched in both soluable and insoluble fiber, one cup of garbanzo beans is just 280 calories.

The cost of fresh garbanzo beans is a bit exuberant. Two “strawberry pint size baskets” of shelled garbanzo beans, which yields 1 cup unshelled, is $10. I suppose most canned garbanzo beans are imported into the US.

Shelled garbanzo with a worm

Unshelled steamed garbanzo