Comparison

Lentils, cooked vs Mung Beans, cooked: Fiber Comparison

Lentils, cooked carries more fiber per serving — 15.6g versus 15.4g for Mung Beans, cooked. Here's the full breakdown.

Lentils, cooked

15.6g per 1 cup (198g)

Soluble4.3g

Insoluble11.3g

Calories230

Protein17.9g

Mung Beans, cooked

15.4g per 1 cup (202g)

Soluble5.0g

Insoluble10.4g

Calories212

Protein14.2g

The verdict

Lentils, cooked and Mung Beans, cooked are close on fiber, within 0.2g of each other per serving. At that gap, other factors — calories, protein, how each fits a given meal — matter more for choosing between them than fiber content alone.

Lentils, cooked: 15.6g/serving Mung Beans, cooked: 15.4g/serving Difference: 0.2g

Individual pages

Full Lentils, cooked profile

Cooks in 20 minutes with no soaking, which makes it the easiest legume to work into a weeknight fiber ramp.

Full Mung Beans, cooked profile

Cooks faster than most beans and is the base for mung bean sprouts, which have a much lower fiber count than t...