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Whole green moong carries 17.04 g of total dietary fibre and 1.14 g of fat per 100 g of dry grain on the ICMR-NIN tables, where the average for Indian pulses as a group is 12 g of fibre and 3.0 g of fat. Most published moong benefits are composition figures of this kind. The trial evidence behind the weight, blood sugar and immunity claims is thinner than the benefit lists suggest.
Soak whole moong 8 hours, drain it completely, then keep it damp and covered for 12 to 24 hours. Desi kala chana runs longer, roughly 10 to 12 hours soaking and 24 to 48 hours draining. Indian kitchens sit well above the 21°C that extension sprouting guidance assumes, so the tail arrives faster and so does bacterial growth. Rinse every 6 hours, refrigerate at 4°C and eat within 4 to 6 days.
Cold pressed oil is pressed mechanically from seed or nut without added heat or chemical solvents, then settled and filtered rather than refined. The process runs in five stages: cleaning, moisture conditioning, pressing, settling and filtering, and bottling. In India the words Kachi Ghani and Cold Pressed are both permitted on mustard oil under one compositional test. Wood pressed appears nowhere in that standard.
Atta keeps the bran and germ, maida is the endosperm alone, and that single structural fact is why atta carries 11.36 g of fibre per 100 g against maida's 2.76 g in ICMR-NIN's 2017 tables. Protein is nearly the same in both, at 10.57 g and 10.36 g. FSSAI enforces the split by capping maida's ash at 1.0 percent and atta's at 2.0 percent.
Heat mustard oil on its own until it thins, then drop the flame before anything goes in. The compound that makes it sting boils at about 152°C, so the harshest edge leaves early. Use black oil for tadka, a high oleic oil for deep frying and a mild yellow oil for marinades. ICMR-NIN puts total cooking oil at 4 to 10 teaspoons per person per day.
Kala chana carries 18.77 g of protein and 25.22 g of total dietary fibre per 100 g of dry grain on the ICMR-NIN tables, against 12.2 g of fibre in the USDA reference entry for raw chickpeas that most international pages quote. The gap is largely the thick desi seed coat. Most published kala chana benefits are composition figures of that kind, not trial outcomes.
