Chickpea is a legume. Because the protruding part at one end looks similar to the beak of an eagle, people call it chickpea. Chickpeas are a relatively rare food, but they have high nutritional value.

According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, chickpeas are neutral in nature and sweet in taste, and return to the spleen, stomach, and kidney meridians. It has the effects of strengthening the stomach, moistening the lungs, nourishing the skin, strengthening bones, detoxifying and anti-inflammatory. It is especially effective in children's intellectual development, bone growth, physical fitness in middle-aged and elderly people, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, kidney deficiency, kidney deficiency, blood replenishment, and calcium replenishment.