Swap guide: Chickpeas

Chickpeas (also sold as garbanzo beans) are a pulse crop where glyphosate can be applied shortly before harvest. Here is what the sources say, and the certified chickpea products on ByeGly.

Why chickpeas come up

• Registered before harvest in Canada. Keep it Clean's 2026 advisory says glyphosate is registered for pre-harvest weed control on chickpeas, lentils, peas and dry beans, applied only when seed moisture is under 30% in the least mature part of the field.¹
• U.S. use. Washington State University lists glyphosate as a harvest aid in chickpea, dry pea and lentil, and notes that some pulse buyers will not purchase crops treated with it.²
• Pulse products are tested. CFIA's 2015-2016 retail survey covered bean, pea, lentil, chickpea and soy products. It reported glyphosate detected in 47.4% of 869 bean, pea and lentil product samples, with 0.6% above Canadian limits.³

See the spray calendar for chickpea timing in Saskatchewan.

None of this tells you how a particular product was grown or made. That is what certifications are for. For what regulators have said about glyphosate, see Where agencies stand.

What to look for

• Glyphosate Residue Free or BioChecked Non-Glyphosate on the package: a lab did not detect glyphosate in the product at about 0.01 ppm. That is a detection limit, not zero, and it is not a health claim.
• USDA Certified Organic: glyphosate may not be used in organic crop production. It is not a residue test.
• Check the exact product. A certification covers the listed product, not everything a brand makes.

See How to read a label, Certifications explained and How we verify.

Certified chickpeas on ByeGly

• Heyday Canning Co (Glyphosate Residue Free): Coconut Curry Chickpeas; Harissa Lemon Chickpeas. Where to buy: store locator; retailers named on the brand's site: Target, Whole Foods Market.
• Ithaca Hummus (Glyphosate Residue Free): Ithaca Hummus French Onion; Ithaca Hummus Jalapeno Lime; Ithaca Hummus Lemon Beet; Ithaca Hummus Lemon Dill; Ithaca Hummus Lemon Garlic; Ithaca Hummus Olive Oil Sea Salt; Ithaca Hummus Roasted Red Pepper. Where to buy: store locator.
• Jovial Foods (Glyphosate Residue Free): Organic Chickpeas. Where to buy: store locator.
• Palouse Brand (Glyphosate Residue Free): Chickpea Flour; Garbanzo Chickpeas; Legume Bundle Chickpeas Green Split Peas; Legume Variety Bundle Chickpeas Brown Lentils; Legume Variety Bundle Chickpeas Green Split Peas Brown Lentils. Where to buy: retailers named on the brand's site: Amazon.
• Taste Republic (Glyphosate Residue Free): Fresh Gluten + Grain Free Chickpea Linguini - Organic (6-Pack). Where to buy: store locator.

Only the exact products listed on ByeGly are certified as far as we can confirm. Other products from the same brand are not on our list unless they appear there.

Each listing on ByeGly shows the certification, a Source link to the brand page where we saw it, the date we last checked it, and a Buy link to the brand's own site. Where the brand's site has a store locator or names retailers, we show it next to the brand.

Related

• Lentils: see the lentils guide. Beans and split peas: see the beans guide.

Don't see what you buy? If it isn't listed, it's not on our list yet. Use Request a product to ask us to look at it. We add a listing only if we can confirm a named certification on the brand's own public site.

Sources

Product facts come from the live ByeGly product database (Supabase project byegly, public listings, read November 10, 2026). Product and certification names are shown as the brand writes them; where-to-buy details come from the brand's own site as recorded in that database.