Boiled Lentils: Calories and Nutrition Analyse

Boiled lentils: calories, protein, carbs and fat exact data

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Marcin Piotrowicz

How many calories in boiled lentils?

In this article:

★ Calories
★ Nutrition
★ Calories per unit
★ Calories per ounce (oz)
★ Carbs
★ Fat
★ Protein

For example, handful of boiled lentils (34 g) has about 39 calories.

It is about 2% of daily calories intake for adult person with medium weight and medium activity (for calculation we assumed 2400 kcal daily intake).

To visualize how much it actualy is, take in mind that calories amount from handful boiled lentils is similar to calories amount from ie.:

0.5 apple
0.5 glass of Coca Cola (220 ml glass)
2 cubes of sugar

For burning such amount of calories you need to bike at least 6 minutes, swim for about 5 minutes or run for 4 minutes.

Calories In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

See all nutrition data of boiled lentil on charts.

Boiled lentils: calories and nutrition per 100g (and per ounce)

Calories116kcal/100g(33 kcal/oz)

Carbs20.1g/100g(5.7 g/oz)

Protein9g/100g(2.6 g/oz)

Fat0.4g/100g(0.1 g/oz)

How many calories in handful, tablespoon, teaspoon, cup or half cup of boiled lentils?

As I wrote before 100g have 116 calories. It is also easy to count how many calories will be in ie. handful, tablespoon, teaspoon, cup or half cup of boiled lentils.

Handful of boiled lentils (34g)39 kcal
Tablespoon of boiled lentils (12g)14 kcal
Teaspoon of boiled lentils (4g)5 kcal
Cup of boiled lentils (198g)230 kcal
Half cup of boiled lentils (99g)115 kcal
Ounce (oz) of boiled lentils33 kcal
10g of boiled lentils12 kcal
20g of boiled lentils23 kcal
50g of boiled lentils58 kcal
100g of boiled lentils116 kcal

Protein in boiled lentils

Boiled lentils have 9.02 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of handful of boiled lentils (34 g) you can see that you will get about 3.1 g of protein.

Carbs in boiled lentils

Boiled lentils have 20.13 g carbohydrates per 100g.
In the same way as for protein we can calculate that handful of boiled lentils (34 g) has about 6.8 g of carbs.

Fat in boiled lentils

Boiled lentils have 0.38 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that handful of boiled lentils (34 g) has about 0.1 g of fat.

handful of boiled lentils (34 g) has:

39kcalFor burning these calories you have to:

Bike6 min.Bike

Horse ride7 min.Horse ride

Play tennis4 min.Tennis

Run4 min.Run

Swim5 min.Swim

boiled lentils - vitamins per 100g

Vitaminium A8 IU
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.169 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.073 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)1.06 mg
Vitaminium B60.178 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)0.181 mcg
Vitaminium C1.5 mg
Vitaminium E0.11 mg
Vitaminium K0.002 mg

Energy content of boiled lentils

67% CARBS
30% PROTEIN
3% FAT

boiled lentils - minerals per 100g

Potassium369 mg
Magnessium36 mg
Calcium19 mg
Sodium2 mg
Iron3.33 mg

Do boiled lentils cause weight gain? Whether it is good to eat boiled lentils on diet?

Extremely hight number of calories in boiled lentils puts this product at the top of hight calorific Cooked. If you are on diet and you are looking for low-calorific Cooked, boiled lentils seems to be a bad choice. It is easy to find something better among other Cooked.

It is hard to find product with higher calories count in Cooked. Similar energy amount have only such products as boiled chickpeas, boiled beef or boiled beets.

You should consider that not only calories are important when you are on a diet. If boiled lentils contain nutrition you need than maybe you should add it to your daily menu anyway?

Interesting charts - compare boiled lentils with other Cooked

When you look at charts below you will see how boiled lentils look like in comparsion to other products from its category. When you click on selected product you will se detailed comparsion.

Vitamin C In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Fiber In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Fat In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Iron In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Magnesium In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Potassium In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Protein In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Sodium In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Sugar In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin B1 In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin B2 In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin B6 In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin E In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Vitamin K In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Water In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Carbohydrates In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Calories In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

Calcium In Boiled Lentil Based On Cooked Category

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Marcin Piotrowicz

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All information about nutrition on this website was created with help of information from the official United States Department of Agriculture database.