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Health-conscious snackers and office workers looking for a legume-based alternative to fried namkeen are the typical buyers of this product. At three ingredients — 96% chickpea, refined cottonseed oil, and 1.5% salt — it is one of the cleaner roasted chana offerings on the Indian market, with no artificial colours, preservatives, or flavours. The most useful thing a consumer should know is that while the ingredient list is impressively short and the product delivers real protein and fibre per serving, the sodium level (190 mg per 30 g serving, ~633 mg per 100 g) is not trivial, and the use of refined cottonseed oil — which carries process contaminants (glycidyl esters, 3-MCPD) flagged by EFSA — is a mild but real concern worth noting, particularly for frequent consumers.
