Red lentils (dried)
How long it keeps
About 12 months unopened
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 334 Lentils, dried, 1 Years · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data
What ends it. It takes up water from the air, which is what makes it cake, soften or grow mould. How to make it last longer
Storage
Cool, dark, airtight. No soak, twenty minutes from dry, and they thicken as they go. The most useful dried pulse for one-burner cooking.
Worth reading
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 500 g
- Weight packed
- 508 g
- Volume
- 595 ml
Computed from net weight and standard pack geometry, not weighed. Manufacturers publish net weight and nobody publishes packed weight or displaced volume, so this is an estimate and is labelled as one.
Per 100 g
Deliberately narrow. These are the five things a long-life diet actually gets wrong, plus energy and protein. It is not a general nutrition model and is not meant to be.
- Energy
- 311 kcal
- Protein
- 25.6 g
- Fibre
- 17.4 g
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- 10 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 0 mg
Source: CoFID 2021: 13-657 Lentils, red, split, dried, raw