Heat unfolds them and they link to each other: they bind, they firm, they build crust. They are one half of the Maillard reaction; sugar is the other.
Every protein has its own threshold and none of them are reversible. Egg turns at 82 °C, meat at 70, fish at 55 — once past, there is no coming back.
The nutrient entry covers dry lentils generally, not an analysis of a named green cultivar. It does not apply to cooked weight.
How to keep it, and who it suits.
Keep in an airtight container in a cool, dry, dark cupboard for 12 months.
Plain dried lentils are naturally gluten-free legumes.
16 — glucose is taken as 100. Below 55 is low, 56–69 medium, 70 and above high. The number says nothing about portion: at the same index, twice the amount is twice the load.
Row in the table: Lentils, boiled, mean of eight foods
Atkinson et al., Am J Clin Nutr 2021
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