chickpea flour
Chickpea flour is ground chickpeas — a grain-free binder that counts as a chickpea fraction. How Bowlmark reads it.
Also appears on labels as: garbanzo bean flour
What it is
Chickpea flour — garbanzo bean flour — is chickpeas ground fine, used as a grain-free binder and protein contributor in kibble and baked treats.
Why it's in pet food
It gives grain-free recipes the flour-like functionality wheat would otherwise provide. As a fraction it counts toward the same splitting arithmetic as the whole seed.
How Bowlmark scores it
Scores are deterministic math over the printed label — the rules below apply to every product identically, and nothing estimates or fills in a blank.
Chickpea flour counts as a chickpea fraction for the splitting rule (three or more chickpea-word ingredients in the top eight is a single 12-point deduction) and toward the zero-point legume-rich grain-free informational flag (FDA DCM-inquiry context).
Foods that list chickpea flour
Ranked by score where scores exist. Placement here is never sold.
Sources
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Further reading
Cite this page
Bowlmark. "Chickpea flour in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/chickpea-flour
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