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  Lentil
Lentil plants are slender, semi-erect annuals with compound leaves (4 to 7 pairs of leaflets) with a tendril at the tips.
Lentil is adapted to cool growing conditions, and the young plants are tolerant of spring frosts.
Lentil is not very competitive (especially as seedlings) with many of the grasses and/or broadleaf weed species that infest farm fields, so weed control before planting and early in the growing season is critical.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/afcm/lentil.html   (2315 words)

  
  Lentil - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This lentil is cultivated in one or other variety in India, Persia, Syria, Egypt, Nubia and North Africa, and in Europe, along the coast of the Mediterranean, and as far north as Germany, Holland and France.
It is sown in autumn either with a cereal crop or alone, and is cultivated chiefly in the north and east of France.
Lentils are more properly the food of the poor in all countries, where they are grown, and have often been spurned when better food could be obtained, hence the proverb Dives factus jam desiit gaudere lente.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lentil   (1118 words)

  
 Lentil
Lentils are sometimes used in soups, stews and salad dishes, but lentils produced in extremely dry conditions generate a hard seed coat which may make them difficult to cook.
Lentils may be combined directly with a flexible cutterbar if the fields are uniformly ripe, but should be combined between 18 and 22 percent moisture to prevent harvest losses and cracked seed coats.
Lentil seeds may be stored in a bin at 14 percent moisture; however, they should be combined at 18 to 22 percent moisture to decrease the number of cracked seeds.
www.ag.ndsu.edu /pubs/alt-ag/lentil.htm   (2302 words)

  
 Lentil
Lentil plants are slender, semi-erect annuals with compound leaves (4 to 7 pairs of leaflets) with a tendril at the tips.
Lentil is adapted to cool growing conditions, and the young plants are tolerant of spring frosts.
Lentil is not very competitive (especially as seedlings) with many of the grasses and/or broadleaf weed species that infest farm fields, so weed control before planting and early in the growing season is critical.
corn.agronomy.wisc.edu /AlternativeCrops/Lentil.htm   (2315 words)

  
 CGIAR: Research & Impact: Areas of Research: Lentils
The major lentil producing regions are Asia (58 percent of the area) and the West Asia-North Africa region (37 percent of the acreage of developing countries).
Lentil is the most important pulse in Bangladesh and Nepal, where it significantly contributes to the diet.
However, lentils must be teamed with a grain, such as rice, pasta, or barley, to complete and enhance their protein availability to the body.
www.cgiar.org /impact/research/lentils.html   (356 words)

  
 Crop Profiles
Lentils are important as a rotational crop, especially with the small cereal grains (wheat, barley), and as a cash crop.
Seedling blight and foliar Ascochyta blight are the primary diseases of lentils grown in Idaho.
Incidence of BLRV in the Pacific Northwest is not necessarily correlated with observable colonization of lentils by the pea aphid and the green peach aphid.
pestdata.ncsu.edu /cropprofiles/docs/IDlentils.html   (2916 words)

  
 Food Product Design: Design Applications - A Lesson in Lentils
In this country, lentils are grown particularly in the northwest, in eastern Washington and northern Idaho.
Lentil types include U.S. regular, or brewer, the most common variety; eston, which is the variety most often exported and which is used widely in France; pardina, or Spanish brown, used frequently throughout Spain; grande, named for their size; and red chief, whose outer skins are removed for quick cooking.
Lentils have a mild flavor on their own, and can be enhanced with many herbs, spices and seasonings.
www.foodproductdesign.com /archive/2000/0200da.html   (437 words)

  
 Lentil   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A wide range of lentil types and sizes are grown and are available with different seed coat and cotyledon colours.
Canadian lentil varieties are available with seed coat colours that range from clear, green, brown, grey and mottled purple and fl.
The two main types of lentils produced in Canada are green lentils with yellow cotyledon and red lentils with red cotyledon.
www.pulsecanada.com /cgi-bin/pulse.pl/crop/lentil   (98 words)

  
 Lentil Mania -- The Vegetarian Resource Group
Orange lentils are found in India, Africa, and the Middle East.
Toss lentil mixture with dressing and serve on shredded lettuce.
Mix with drained cooked lentils and potatoes that have been mashed together with a fork.
www.vrg.org /recipes/lentils.htm   (453 words)

  
 Many cultures love lentils; here's why we should too
Lentils do travel from soups to salads to main dishes effortlessly, and, in the Palouse, where a third of the U.S. lentil crop is grown, cooks have been known to incorporate the legume into everything from pancakes to chocolate cake.
In India, lentils are used in dals (a word that stands for all pulses, including dried beans, lentils and peas), which is a dish that appears at nearly every meal.
Lentils, which are a good source of protein, folate and iron, don't need to be soaked before cooking.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /food/281322_lentils16.html   (1485 words)

  
 lentil. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Probably indigenous to SW Asia, and known to have been used as early as the Bronze Age, the lentil was introduced to Greece and Egypt before biblical times and was one of the first food plants cultivated in Europe.
Lentils are unusually high in protein content and are much used for food in Europe, especially by the poor, and increasingly in the United States.
Lentils are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Leguminosae.
www.bartleby.com /65/le/lentil.html   (223 words)

  
 Lentil
Lentil salad is not as versatile as pasta salad because of the robust flavor of the lentils.
Lentil salads generally seem to be built on three themes: something crunchy, something spicy, and a vinaigrette.
Lentils may be cooked ahead the same day or refrigerated in their liquid for 2 or 3 days.
specialflavors.com /collection/salads/lentil.htm   (330 words)

  
 Biotic Diseases VII
The lentil crop is affected by a number of viral diseases in different regions.
One example is the lentil yellows disease, which in recent years has been found to be widespread in the major lentil-growing regions of the world.
Lentil yellows is the most widespread virus disease of lentil, occurring worldwide.
www.icarda.cgiar.org /Publications/Field_Guides/Lentil/Lent7.Html   (790 words)

  
 MDidea Extracts Professional:Newly Developed Extracts Series:Lentil seeds P.E.Lens esculenta,Lens culinaris ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lentils (Lens culinaris) are a small legume of the pea family with round, flattened seeds in pods.
The ancient Greeks also enjoyed lentils, which they not only used in soups but also to make bread and Pliny wrote a description not only of the growing of lentils from seed but also their medicinal properties and the ways they were prepared and cooked lentils for various remedies.
Lentils are rich in protein and carbohydrates, and are a good source of calcium, phosphorus, iron and B vitamins.
www.mdidea.com /products/new/new060.html   (4265 words)

  
 LENTIL
Because winter lentils are exposed to the prolonged wet and cool spring weather, white mold is likely to be more common and more severe in winter lentils than in spring-sown lentils.
A population of the white mold pathogen obtained from a single lentil field from eastern Washington showed considerable genetic diversity as measured by mycelial incompatibility.
Field and greenhouse evaluations of lentil cultivars have shown that significant differences in response to white mold exist among lentil cultivars.
www.whitemoldresearch.com /HTML/lentil.cfm   (767 words)

  
 House Of Lentils - Lentils in Syria - Agriculture - Cereals - Food
Lentil is a very important pulse crop in Syria, as it is considered as an important source of dietary protein for its low- to- middle income population.
Lentil is grown to improve economic returns to producers, diversify and lengthen crop rotations, and reduce the requirement for nitrogen fertilizer.
Lentil, a member of the legume family, Leguminosae, can supply a significant part of its nitrogen fertility requirement by fixing nitrogen from the air when properly inoculated.
www.lentilsexport.com /lentils.html   (522 words)

  
 COLLECTION: Lentil Soups
If you prefere to use brown or green whole lentils, which have a lovely flavour, instead of the orange split lentils, simmer 1 oz in a small saucepan in 6 fl oz of water for 40 minsutes first.
Cook lentils, bulgur, beans and chickpeas in the 6 cups of salted water until thoroughly cooked.
While the lentils are cooking briefly saute the onions in water and add parsley, bay leaf.
www.science.uva.nl /~mes/recipe/gale/soup/lentil/lentil-soup-coll.html   (1302 words)

  
 The Lovely Lentil | Restaurants | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
Besides hosting the lentil center of the universe, the incredibly rich topsoil is ideal for growing peas and specialty beans.
Lentils are allowed to dry naturally on the vine in the Palouse summer sun and are harvested in late summer by combines.
As I tucked into my soup, a lentil epiphany transported me to the warm, dry Palouse, and, savoring each bite of the thick lentil and bratwurst stew, I meditated on that most diffident of legumes.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=5611   (640 words)

  
 ICARDA Research Mandate: Global mandate - Lentil
The winter (background) versus spring (foreground) sowing of lentil in an experimental field in Ardebil, Iran.
Lentil seeds: Top left, a Bangladesh landrace; top right, Precoz; and bottom, a cross between a landrace and a medium-maturity boldseed variety from outside South Asia.
Lentil harvesting: A side-mounted, tractor-operated, double-knife cutter bar in operation in Urfa, Turkey.
www.icarda.cgiar.org /ICARDA_photogallery/Lentil/Lentil.html   (316 words)

  
 Lentil and His Dog Harmony by Nancy Schön
Lentil was the first book that Robert McCloskey wrote and illustrated in 1940.
I chose a drawing from the book showing Lentil strutting through town playing his harmonica followed by his faithful dog.
The town of Hamilton held a dog naming contest prior to my putting in the sculpture, hence, the name of the sculpture is “Lentil and his Dog Harmony”.
www.schon.com /public/lentil.php   (227 words)

  
 Lens culinaris (Lentil)
Although the amount harvested per unit area for Lentil is less than for Wheat and Barley, the high protein content (25%) of Lentil seeds makes them a highly nutritious (and tasty) food source.
It is difficult to establish when Lentil started being domesticated because the only way one can determine evidence of domestication from seeds is an increase in seed size which happened only gradually over a long period of time.
Lentil is grown these days mainly in the region extending from the Atlantic coast of Spain and Morocco in the west through to India in the east.
www.museums.org.za /bio/plants/fabaceae/lens_culinaris.htm   (406 words)

  
 Desiree's HowTo make Lentil Swirled Beads
To do that, while continuing to rotate, gradually tighten the rotations you’re doing while maneuvering the bead so the area where the pointy ends are located are directly on the top and bottom; slow down the rotation speed and keep tightening the rotations until the bead shape is where you want it.
This lentil started with a scrap clay ball (pale green ball) and two thick slices from a cane.
The final (lower far right) is the lentil, made after slightly flattening the bicone points when rotating.
desiredcreations.com /howTo_CALentilSwirl.htm   (1081 words)

  
 Cook's Thesaurus: Lentils
Like other legumes, lentils are low in fat and high in protein and fiber, but they have the added advantage of cooking quickly.
Split lentils don't hold their shape well, so they're often cooked into soups or purées.
French green lentils = Puy lentils = lentilles du Puy = lentilles vertes du Puy Shopping hints: These choice lentils were originally grown in the volcanic soils of Puy in France, but now they're also grown in North America and Italy.
www.foodsubs.com /Lentils.html   (964 words)

  
 Lentil Sprouts
The most common Lentil, Greens are the largest, and are equally easy to grow and very delicious, as well as the least expensive.
These lentils have their thin skin removed to reveal their gorgeous bright orange color.
As with all crops of orange lentils there is a fairly high percentage of split seeds.
www.sproutpeople.com /seed/lentils.html   (1171 words)

  
 Lentil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the meaning of "lentil" in Indian English, see pulse (legume).
The colours of the seeds when removed from the pods also vary, and there are large and small varieties.
Eastern Washington, especially the Palouse Region, is the most important producing region in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lentil   (523 words)

  
 Lentil Sprouts
we always keep a sprouter or two of lentil sprouts in the refrigerator, ready to eat.
We use Lentil Sprouts alone, or in combination with other varieties - Alfalfa, Mung, Garbanzo, Sunflower, Pea, Peanut, Grains, etc. We serve them salad-bar style directly from the "mini-gardens" in which they're grown.
A delicious cold (or warm) salad can be made by combining lentils with cut-up baked potato, thin-sliced red onion and choice of dressing.
www.sproutamo.com /html/lentil_sprouts.html   (416 words)

  
 Look, See: July 30, 2006 - August 05, 2006 Archives
Lentil by Robert McCloskey, published by, as it says on the title page, "The Viking Press, Inc. in May 1940." To the right, "A photo in The Columbus Citizen of McCloskey donating Lentil to the Ohioana Library in 1940.
The green inside Lentil's shirt feels like four quick strokes, and the fl surrounding him are a bunch of relaxed flat strokes pulling up from the sharp diagonal line over which his arms reach.
The diagonal line under Lentil's arms separates two qualities: on top, there is a great variety of line- the choppiness of the fl strokes' edges, the tight green in the shirt, the angualarity of the hands, the folds in the shirt.
www.chrisashley.net /weblog/archives/week_2006_07_30.html   (1535 words)

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