Sunil Kumar’s oldest daughter loves peanut butter but she could not offer PBJ sandwich to her friends due to nut allergies. Having realized the limited options for great-tasting and truly healthy snack options, Sunil decided to look for an alternative way of providing protein rich Peanut butter tasting spread without nuts, so parents wouldn’t have to deal with this avoidable allergy issue. The Amazing Chickpea is committed to helping parents feel confident knowing their children are eating delicious, allergy-free and healthy, so they can develop to their full potential.

Sunil started selling The Amazing Chickpea butter spread to local twin cities farmers’ market, finding customers surprised at how similar The Amazing Chickpea tastes like peanut butter. Now after two and half years, The Amazing Chickpeas is sold in retail stores, not only in the USA but Canada as well. Later on, he created a chocolate flavor of The Amazing Chickpea, Choc-a-Chic, that tastes like popular hazelnut spread brands but contains less sugar and fat, and it contains no nuts!

With all the obvious health benefits of The Amazing Chickpea, the greatest may be it’s delicious flavor. While other “nut” butters have removed peanuts from their recipes, in a lot of cases, they’ve also removed the flavor. The beloved, iconic American peanut butter flavor, with its balance of sweet, salty and unique protein-rich flavor, is missing from most other spreads. Whereas that flavor profile is front and center in The Amazing Chickpea Spreads. With a mixture of chickpeas, sunflower seeds, oleic sunflower oil and sugar, The Amazing Chickpea captures the essential flavor that people love so much. Most people are sure they are tasting peanut butter when they taste The Amazing Chickpea.