Red Lentils vs Brown Rice: What Should You Choose?

Less Calories in Red lentils

At first glance, you can see that in red lentils is just a little less calories than in brown rice.

Red lentils has 358 kcal per 100g and brown rice 370 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 3%.

In red lentil and in brown rice most calories came from carbs.

See tables below to compare red lentils with brown rice in details.

Red lentils And Brown rice Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  brown rice - 3% more than red lentils
• Carbohydrates:
  brown rice - 25% more than red lentils
• Fat:
  brown rice - 27% more than red lentils
• Dietary fiber:
  red lentils - 209% more than brown rice
• Protein:
  red lentils - 215% more than brown rice
• Water:
  brown rice - 26% more than red lentils

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More protein in red lentils

It is aslo easy to see see that in red lentils is more protein than in brown rice.

There is 7.6g per 100g of brown rice and 23.91g per 100g of red lentils so using simple math we can see that difference is about 215%.

Less carbohydrates in red lentils

In red lentils is less carbohydrates than in brown rice.

There is 78.68g/100g of carbohydrates in brown rice and 63.1g/100g in red lentils so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 25%.

Less fat in red lentils

In red lentils is less fats than in brown rice.

The tables above show us that there is 2.75g/100g of fats in brown rice and 2.17g/100g in red lentils. In this case difference is about 27%.