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Honeydew's thick, juicy, sweet flesh is often eaten for dessert, and is commonly found in supermarkets across the world.

harvested based on maturity, not size

color ranging from greenish white (immature) to creamy yellow (mature)

Tahini or sesame paste (Arabic: طحينه‎), is a paste of ground sesame seeds used in cooking

hummus bi tahini 'chickpeas with tahini'

The chickpea (Cicer arietinum) (also garbanzo bean, chana (north India), Indian pea, ceci bean, Bengal gram) is an edible legume

Chickpeas are high in protein

Hoisin sauce, or haixian sauce, is a Chinese dipping sauce. The word hoisin is a romanization of the Chinese word for seafood

Mandarin-style hoisin sauce ingredients include starches such as sweet potato, wheat or rice, and water, sugar, soybeans, white distilled vinegar, salt, garlic, red chili peppers, and sometimes preservatives or coloring agents. Traditionally, hoisin sauce is made using sweet potato. Despite the literal meaning of "seafood", hoisin sauce does not contain fish.

A number of Chinese cuisine dishes such as spring rolls, mu shu pork, popiah, peking duck and barbecued pork use the sauce. It is especially common for Cantonese cuisine flavoring.

Semolina is the coarse, purified wheat middlings of durum wheat used in making pasta, and also used for breakfast cereals and puddings

Semolina made from durum wheat is yellow in color. It is usually the basis for dried products such as couscous, which is made by mixing roughly 2 parts semolina with 1 part durum flour.

Durum wheat or macaroni wheat

high protein and gluten content

It has a superior vitamin profile to pasta, containing twice as much riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, and folate, and containing four times as much thiamine and pantothenic acid.

It has a glycemic load per gram 25% below that of pasta

Couscous is among the healthiest grain-based products