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by jkqwzsoo 1455 days ago
Incorrect. It's chickling peas, not chickpeas, that cause illness. Chickpeas are fine to eat, as evidenced by the billion+ people who are eating them every day, particularly in the subcontinent.
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Had no clue there are 2 similar sounding peas.

Anyway, I found this for chickling peas (aka grass peas and cicerchia ):

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-69083-9_...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/07/why-do-po...