Hummus nutritional value: dried vs. canned chickpeas
Canned and preserved foods are not as healthy. Specifically, when using canned chickpeas instead of dried ones to make hummus, you loose half the nutrients.
Most of the recipes for homemade hummus found on the web, are based on canned chickpeas (a.k.a garbanzo beens). To those of you who are acquainted with the original flavor of hummus (not the industrial type, that is), this probably sound like a but idea. True, the use of canned peas demands less effort, but it doesn’t taste that good.
For those of you who see think canned chickpeas are a reasonable substitute, I collected some data about the nutritional differences between cooked dried chickpeas and canned ones.
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Hummus SSRI-effect & the Tryptophan rich diet
Chickpeas and tahini, the major ingredients of hummus, contain essential amino acids which has a very similar effect to that of anti-depressants. Don’t be surprised if one day in the near future your doctor will prescribe you some hummus.
In a recent post I addressed the fascinating issue of hummus’s anti-depression and anti-anxiety potential. To be exact, hummus has some nutrients that may affect mood in certain dosages. This is somewhat similar to how an SSRI drug (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) like Prozac, Seroxat or Cipralex works.
SSRIs prolongs the presence of free serotonin in the brain. The postponed absorption of serotonin (a crucial neurotransmitter) into the brain cells, would usually result in diminished symptoms of depression, stress, anxiety and compulsive behaviour, thus make one “happier”.
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Hummus: nutritional facts
Hummus is a nutritional treasure. It’s not only delicious to eat, but also contain lots of vitamins, minerals, amino acids.See Also: Hummus, is it good for your Diet?
It’s hard to be decisive when talking about hummus in general. There are different kinds of hummus, in which the exact quantities of each ingredient vary. So it’s a little hard to be precise, but I can tell you: hummus is certainly good for you!
By the way: we are talking solely about homemade – or at list handmade – hummus (recipe). Industrial packaged hummus is not that healthy.
So what does hummus contain?
Alexa Experiment: could changing my Alexa Ranking have been so easy?
This post has really nothing to do with the rest of the blog around it, which is about hummus (and I do hope you’ll give it a look guys!) .The simple fact, these day, is that even a blogger who writes about hummus, should learn how to rank well in Alexa. Otherwise, he will have a hard time making decent money out of affiliate-programs like Text-Link-Ads, which consider Alexa to be a viable source of information for some reason.
So I gave this subject a little time, and now I’m back and going to tell you all what works best.
Do you want to participate?
Well, you can decide about that later. Meanwhile, lets get to business.
A short explanation: though being far from accurate, the Alexa Rating is used in many cases as a measure for a site’s popularity. A good example is the Text-link-ads advertising program, in which Alexa Rating is used to decide how much the advertiser will pay, and therfore – how much you will be paid.
Many people look for “dirty tricks” for manipulating the rating. Some, explain how you should optimize and market your site so that it will get a lot of traffic and hopefully a lot of your visitors will have the Alexa toolbar installed (this is always true, but is not merely enough).
I suspect the simple truth is that you need relatively little traffic to get better ranking – but you need “quality traffic”, specifically: people who have the Alexa Toolbar installed.
Now, if you got this far, than you probably figured that out already: when writing about Alexa I’m naturally drawing the attention of the right people. I know some people who use the Alexa Toolbar have a special interest in such posts, and will read them even if they are posted in a blog which has nothing to do with SEO (or so it seem).
[OK, you're right - I also know a thing or two about SEO. White-hat highly ethical and very organic SEO, which I do mostly pro-bono for fun and for NGOs. And you'll soon see how there's actually no dirty tricks here, so me - and you - aren't gonna be penalised or anything.]
In the past few month my Alexa Rating went from 3 Million to about 200K
So I must be doing something right, right?
In the past 15 days or so, it went up even more, specifically from 214K to 181K, completing a 48% improvement in a period of 3 month.
Click Here to read what I did: Improved Alexa Rating
Humus Recipe II
We have an easy recipe that will teach you how to make humus and hummus and houmous! Three for the price of one, which is for free.
In the hummus blog, we prefer to spell our favorite dish with double m’ (hummus). This is also the correct spelling as far as we can tell. The problem is, many people spell it “humus” when looking us in the search engines. So, if you got here looking for a “humus recipe”, click this link: Humus Recipe.
If you link to it, save it as a favorite, or comment about it in your blog (please do!) you can call it “a humus recipe” or “a hummus recipe”. And if you want to be a real saint, you can even give us two links: one pointing here, saying “humus recipe” and the other to the “hummus recipe” page.
This may seem to you as no more then a boring technicality, but spelling issues are (almost) everything when it comes to building a successful community. And this blog, by all means, is intended to create a flourishing online hummus community, the first of it’s kind.
In order to archive that, we shell of course have to merge all the sub-communities created by different spellings, such as houmous, homous, humous, chumus, hoomoos, and god knows what else. Thanks for your kind help.
Is Hummus good for your diet?
There’s a little argue about the culinary virtues of hummus. There is some confusion and misunderstanding about it’s nutritional value, though. Is hummus good for you? Is it good for your health? Will it make you fat? Is it really that rich in vitamins and other healthy stuff, or is all that merely a myth, encouraged by people with commercial interests?
Also read: Hummus Nutritional Facts
In the coming posts I’ll try to clear things up a little. This time, we’ll talk specifically about the alleged fattening affect of hummus.
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Arbis: the ultimate chickpea snack
Arbes is so simple to make, and so tasty, that after you know the recipe you might find yourself eating it all the time. It also has an interesting story.
Arbes (or “arbis”) is a traditional dish, originally eaten by jews on the “Shalom Zachar” feast (usually pronounced “Shulem Zucher”). When a child is born, the family hosts a ceremonial meal, where it is customary to serve the arbes.
Arbes is basically a snack – cooked chick peas with salt and pepper. Very simple, very easy to make, and unbelievably tasty.
Ironically, “Arbes” is actually the Yiddish word for “peas”, not chickpeas. And besides the “Ashkenazic” Jews (European) who gave it the Yiddish name, it is also eaten by Sephardic Jews (from North Africa and Arab countries) such as Iraqi Jews who call it “Lablabi” and add cumin to it.
This is how you make it (about 5-10 servings):
1. Soak 2 cups of chickpeas over a night.
2. Drain and wash carefully, then cook for about an half an hour.
3. Add some baking soda and cook for another 1/2-1 hour, until soft (the chick peas should be soft enough for you to squash between two fingers, but not too soft).
4. Add lots of salt and freshly grained pepper.
5. Eat.
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