Are Lentils good for muscle building?

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Yep. They're great for you.

>>70737261 (OP)

Unironically one of the best carb sources you can eat if your goal is building muscle. Picrel can also be used to make some kino wraps and tortillas. Just soak them overnight in water with some salt. Blend together into a batter with the soak water and cook them in a pan to make a crepe-like bread. 30% protein, full of fiber, no grains, strong, flexible, tasty

>>70737261 (OP)

yes meat is good for muscles

>>70737261 (OP)

This and beans are fucking godsends.

>>70737261 (OP)

Pretty good but idk if the absolutely horrendous farts I rip several times an hour when i mainline lentils as majority of dishes for a week are worth the cheap price of them

Soak them before cooking them. For anywhere from a half hour to an hour. Discard the water and rinse them after.

I tried it even soaking overnight, thorough rinses; no better. Idk if it’s so much of a different fibre or lectin or something all at once. I could try sprouting them but then there is more volume to have to eat.

It’s way worse with beans though.

Tried canned lentils. 

They're more expensive and less nutritious, but I find them easier to digest.

Canning is a product of the Industrial Revolution and a pudgy French Manlet so I avoid it on principle but thanks.

I’m thinking maybe next time I can build up a tolerance to them slowly, instead of going from nothing to eating them twice a day for a week straight.

I used to be snobby like that about canned beans, but because they are so much work to prepare with soaking and cooking, I ended up rarely eating them.

Now it only takes 10 minutes to heat them up in a pan.

>30% protein



More like 25% protein and that's of the dry weight. They end up having way less protein than you think per portion since cooked they're mostly water. To get, let's say, 30 grams of protein from lentils you end up having to eat a full big bowl of them.



Vegans often make this mistake and way overestimate their protein intake. I did the math on my vegan friend's diet and he got around 30 grams of protein daily while eating a lot of "protein rich" foods like lentils. He was aiming for 90 grams and was sure he was getting it.



They're not a bad source of protein if your stomach can handle them, but you have to eat more than you'd think for the most common ways of preparing them. For example in a lentil dahl, they end up being so over-saturated with water that 100g of dahl will have a protein content in the single digits of grams. Trying to get all your protein from lentils, you quickly end up doing a diet of a gallon of dahl a day, or GODAD.
