Food detail / Source: USDA

Lentils — reference photograph

Lentils

Category: Legume, grain or cereal

Preparation: Mature lentils, boiled without salt.

Loading account…

Cooked lentil mush · Theresa Carpenter · CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped to a square, resized and converted to WebP.

Reference photograph; not the sample analyzed by USDA.

Portion

Adjust the amount

USDA composition per 100 g for this preparation. Missing values and results below quantification limits remain unavailable for arithmetic; see USDA for the original limits. These data do not establish a food-specific health benefit.

Reported amino acids

Tryptophan: 0.1 gThreonine: 0.3 gIsoleucine: 0.4 gLeucine: 0.7 gLysine: 0.6 gMethionine: 0.1 gCystine: 0.1 gPhenylalanine: 0.4 gTyrosine: 0.2 gValine: 0.4 gArginine: 0.7 gHistidine: 0.3 gAlanine: 0.4 gAspartic acid: 1.0 gGlutamic acid: 1.4 gGlycine: 0.4 gProline: 0.4 gSerine: 0.4 g
Photograph credits