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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Some data on desserts for those watching their glucose, ranked from best to worst 0. Dark chocolate 1. Dry Indian milk-solids (mawa/khoya) 2. Chickpea flour (besan) based sweets like soan-papdi, ladoo 3. Western-style cookies and cakes 4. Sugar-syrup based wet Indian sweets (gulab jamun, rosogolla, jalebi)
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kompreni 🅱️ ⚡
@kompreni
The west is sleeping on chickpea sweets so hard. Just wait, in 5 years it'll be something kitschy like "Sumerian superfood high in fiber, protein, and healthy fats"
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