Lentils:
A lentil is an edible pulse. It is a bushy annual plant of the legume family, grown for its lens-shaped seeds. It is about 40 cm in tall, and the seeds grow in pods, usually with two seeds in each. Lentil colour range from yellow, red-orange to green, brown and black. Lentils also vary in size and are sold in various forms with or without skins, whole or split. Lentils are inexpensive, highly, nutritious and can be stored for a long time without refrigeration.
Beans:
Bean is common name for the large plant seeds used for human food or animal feed of several genera of the family Fabaceae. Beans are summer crop that needs warm temperature to grow. Beans were an important source of protein throughout the Old and New World history and still are today. Beans have significant amount of fiber and soluble fiber, with one cup of cooked beans providing between nine and 13 grams of fiber.
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| Definition (www.oxforddictionaries.com) |
A high-protein pulse which is dried and then soaked and cooked prior to eating. | An edible seed, typically kidney-shaped, growing in long pods on certain leguminous plants |
| Synonyms | Corn, peas, rice, maize, broccoli, beets, cabbage, spinach | Potato, vegetable, legumes, celery, cauliflower, chard |
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| History | People have been gathering and eating lentils since they first came to West Asia, about 60000 years ago. By the time the Neolithic, about 10000 BC, West Asian farmers were deliberately farming lentils. | Beans are the one of the longest cultivalted plants. They were grown in Thailand since the early seventh millennium BCE, predating ceramics. Not until the second millennium BCE did cultivated, large seeded broad beans appear in the Aegean, Iberia and transalpine Europe. |
| Word origin | It was originated from Middle English: from Old French lentille, from Latin lenticula, diminutive of lens, lent- ‘lentil’. | It was originated fromOld English bēan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch boon and German Bohne. |
| Calories | It has 116 calories in 100 grams. | It has 341 calories in 100 grams. |
| Protein | It has 9 g protein. | It has 22 g protein. |
| Carbohydrate | It has 20 g carbohydrate. | It has 62 g carbohydrate. |
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