I was in the grocery store and found three packages of lentils.
One had 4.3g/100g of protein, one had 4.8g/100g of protein, and the last had 25.8g/100g of protein.
How is it possible for one food item to have such varying degrees of nutrition?
Thank you in advance for your answers.
lentils legumes and grains will absorb anywhere from 2-4 times their weight in water when soaked and cooked. so 100g dry lentils would become 300-500g of soaked or cooked lentils. 100g cooked lentils will have anywhere from 1/3 to 1/5 nutrients of 100g dry lentils.
this is also why people on plant based/vegan diets generally need to eat larger volumes of food. 100g of raw chicken and 100g of raw/dry beans/lentils have roughly the same amount of protein. but 100g of cooked chicken has more protein than its raw form (due to some water loss), while 100g of cooked beans have way less protein than their dry form. that’s not to say legumes are “bad” or anything, it’s just you usually need to eat more of them.
