Red Lentils vs Chickpeas: All Nutritional Differences

Less Calories in Red lentils

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

Red lentils has 358 kcal per 100g and chickpeas 378 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 6%.

In red lentil and in chickpeas most calories came from carbs.

See tables below to compare red lentils with chickpeas in details.

Red lentils And Chickpeas Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  chickpeas - 6% more than red lentils
• Carbohydrates:
  red lentils - 0% more than chickpeas
• Fat:
  chickpeas - 178% more than red lentils
• Dietary fiber:
  chickpeas - 13% more than red lentils
• Protein:
  red lentils - 17% more than chickpeas
• Water:
  red lentils - 2% more than chickpeas

More protein in red lentils

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

There is 20.47g per 100g of chickpeas and 23.91g per 100g of red lentils so using simple math we can see that difference is about 17%.

More carbohydrates in red lentils

In red lentils is more carbohydrates than in chickpeas.

There is 62.95g/100g of carbohydrates in chickpeas and 63.1g/100g in red lentils so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 0%.

Less fat in red lentils

In red lentils is less fats than in chickpeas.

The tables above show us that there is 6.04g/100g of fats in chickpeas and 2.17g/100g in red lentils. In this case difference is about 178%.

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