Lentils

Sydking
Sydking Posts: 317 Member
edited November 8 in Food and Nutrition
Now, I buy cook and eat mckenzines green lentils

Nutritional info below, this is for raw uncooked. Now as you can see the macos are pretty amazing.

However, this is the only nutritional info for lentils that i can find that is even close to this. Do i trust them?? I crossed checked with Calorie, USDA and about 10 MFP entries. Every one was way different to the next.

Even Calorieking and USDA and Google Nutition are not the same when i go 100g raw uncooked..... i understand the US subtract the fiber from the carbs but still cant work it out

Nutrition Information

Serving Size 50g Per Serving Per 100g
Energy 740kJ 1480kJ
Protein 12.9g 25.8g
Fat - Total 0g 1.1g
Carbohydrate 14.8g 29.6g
- Sugars 1g 2.0g
Dietary Fibre 15.3g 30.5g
Sodium 3mg 6mg

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  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Go by the USDA.
    (By the way, the US does not subtract for fiber. Some low carb folks do that.)

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  • Sydking
    Sydking Posts: 317 Member
    i just don't understand how there can be such a difference
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    There are different varieties of lentils so that might be why the big differences.
  • maybyn
    maybyn Posts: 233 Member
    What's the big difference?

    I had a quick look at USDA and nutritiondata and both show very similar data to the one you displayed.

    The only exception is that the carbs in the mfp data should be doubled to 60g per 100g serving. Perhaps dietary fibre was subtracted by the person who keyed in the info?

    Check McKenzie's label too.
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