Red Lentil Amino Acid Profile

Jcombs

The app says that red lentils don't have an amino acid profile. What's with this? I tend to eat them after oats so I'm sure I'm getting all that I need. I use https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator to assure my staple diet includes all essential amino acids but I thought maybe I'd share.

Karen_Cronometer

Hi Jcombs,

If you are looking for more nutrition information than you can find on the nutrition label of your food product, trying searching for Red Lentils in the Common tab. This will limit your search results to the foods with the most comprehensive nutrient information. For example, "Lentils, Pink or Red, Raw" or "Lentils, Cooked From Dried" have amino acids listed in their nutrient profiles.

Best,

Hilary

Hey @Jcombs , check out this blog post! https://cronometer.com/blog/6-tips-getting-nutrition-data/ There are some great tips similar to the suggestion @Karen_Cronometer gave!

Jcombs

Ok, yeah that makes sense. Thank you for the explanation and the link. I'll look for the generic options that will log more comprehensive profiles.