Lentils: A Miracle Of Nutrition [Full Documentary]

Now you know you’re really vegetarian/vegan/plant based when you sit down & WATCH 53 minutes of a lentil documentary. I’m a certified Lentil Lover.🎖

During the pandemic when most people were emptying store shelves the only thing I picked was bags of lentils.

This is why YouTube is so great, you can find one hour documentaries on interesting topics.

I am not ashamed to say we went to bed hungry many nights and our day meals weren't much either. When we did have food to eat (beans, rice), is what we ate. When my mom was able to get a bag of flour she made bread. I see now beans were our protein. Right up to this day I cook beans and lentils. I thank God for my meals. I have learned to always have a garden if you can these days.🙏🏼

I once ate lentils and carrots for two weeks straight. I love lentils. They kept me going through hard times.

"Poor man's protein" ? I'm sure he means the "smart man's protein".

“Without lentils we are nothing” - says everything

This is the place where lentils fans congregate 😅❤️❤️❤️❤️

We take so many things from granted. Looking at all the effort and work this people have to endure to harvest a cup of lentils make me tear up. Now every time I see a bag of lentils I will see it with a different eyes. It is the humble pearl of the earth indeed. We don’t appreciate God’s creation enough.

Thanks to this documentary I now know what lentil plants look like, rather than just bags of ‘em on the store shelves. ...And now have a deeper appreciation for such a humble legume / pulse.

"How can a poison sprayed field be called a clean field? This double-speak must end." WELL SAID!!!!

I have thanked God numerous times during these past few years for my Mother to have introduced them to our family by making a simple lentil soup. May God continue to bless the lenteja fields all over the world!

I love lentils so much! Most protein of any whole plant food and most antioxidants of all the legumes!

I love lentils. My grandma always made delicious lentil and vegetable soup every Lent season. As a child I thought lentils were the official food for the Lent season.

I live in Norway and live off lentils. Food is so ridiculously expensive here. It is not just developing nations that eat them every day. I really enjoy them as a heathy vegetarian diet. Lentils here come from Canada.

My first reaction as the video started was, "WOW, I didn't know there were that many varieties of lentils!" Then you went on to show us even more. I've never given much thought to lentils other than to vaguely wonder about what the plants are like and to tweak my lentil soup recipe. This video was very clear and easy to understand and I feel like I've learned a lot.

I absolutely love lentils! I bought a large bag (5 lbs, I think) just as corona virus was taking hold of a lot of people. There’s a channel on You Tube called “Great Depression Cooking With Clara”. One of her recipes uses lentils. I made her recipe right after seeing her video and it was delicious! I experiment/modify it by adding a variety of veggies and spices. Lentils are dirt cheap, which is good for me. I lost my job a year ago but, just recently got another one. So, living like a Depression person turned out to be awesome! I limited my food budget to $25.00 a week. You’d be shocked at how well you can eat cooking with just staple foods like beans, rice, lentils and your imagination. I have an organic garden and organically-fed chickens (for eggs only) so, that stretches my food money, despite buying feed for them. I used to work with a woman who was originally from Dominican Republic. She gave me a recipe using beans and spices and herbs I already have. Total yumminess!

I've been eating lentils nearly every day for the last couple of weeks. I started sprouting lentils and I've been putting the sprouts in almost every meal. I add them to salads, soups and stews, and I put them on my sandwiches instead of lettuce. They take only a couple of minutes to cook after they've sprouted and apparently they are much better for you once they've sprouted. The sprouting gets rid of a lot of the anti-nutrients, such as phytic acid. I've been sprouting mung beans and mustard seeds as well. I've now got lentils, other pulses and seeds sprouting continuously now, so that I don't run out. I love them. I'm not a vegetarian or vegan though. I still eat meat, but not a huge amount. I remember my mother telling me over fifty years ago that beans on toast (a common cheap meal here in the UK) was highly nutritious because the protein in the beans worked with the bread to give you a perfect meal. It turns out she was right, according to this documentary. I felt very uncomfortable about seeing the endless fields of 'clean field' lentils in Canada. They use Roundup from Monsanto (now Bayer, I think), to kill everything else. That is horrific. It makes farmers reliant on the chemical industry for seeds. Once they are in, they can't get out. And it means that we are being sold products that probably contain traces of poison. I agreed with the Indian lady. It is much better to develop seeds naturally and to plant a variety of seeds so that if one fails, others will succeed. Note: most sprouts are not edible raw. Lentils are okay. Kidney beans especially, should be boiled hard for at least ten minutes.

Eating a bowl of lentils rn and watching a documentary about lentils.

I’m Mexican and I have always loved lentils, very nutritious and delicious. To my family is a type of soup, we boil them with garlic, then when softened add chopped cilantro, a bit of tomato paste, chopped carrots and chicken flavor powder bouillon( consomé).