Common thickeners include cannellini beans, chickpeas, breadcrumbs or cubed potatoes. Various legumes were also consumed such as lentils, chickpeas, and beans. This is particularly effective before planting beans, peas, lentils, and chickpeas. Chickpeas (garbanzo beans) have a smaller amount of tannins. Falafel is made from fava beans or chickpeas. It is boiled in a tomato sauce or cooked with meat, beans and chickpeas. Pulses such as chickpeas and lentils are also quite common. The Muria are generally self-sufficient in producing and consuming dal, chickpeas, and lentils. Crops include wheat, grapes, flowers, chickpeas, alfalfa and walnuts. Hummus, made from chickpeas and sesame paste, originated in Syria and Lebanon. Different types of beans, chickpeas and other legumes are very popular. Major crops are wheat, rice, chickpeas, and millet. It is made with a fermented batter derived from rice and split chickpeas. The birds damage sorghum, maize, sunflower, chickpeas and other crops. Fish performed equally well when their soybean or cereal diet was replaced by extruded chickpeas.