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2 unusual facts about lentil


Courtney Combs

Combs has also introduced a bill that would designate Lentil as the State Children's Book and make Robert McCloskey the State Children's Author.

Elevated alpha-fetoprotein

AFP-L3, an isoform of AFP which binds Lens culinaris agglutinin, can be particularly useful in early identification of aggressive tumors associated with HCC.


Ana Marie Cox

In 2009 on an Amtrak train from New York to Washington Cox had a severe allergic reaction after eating a lentil salad.

Black bean

Vigna mungo, a variety of gram or lentil typically used in South Asian cuisine

Hozon

Hozon is made from a fermentation process that combines koji, salt and a primary substrate, such as cashews, chickpeas, or lentils.

Le Puy green lentil

The "Le Puy green lentil" is protected throughout the European Union according to its Protected Designation of Origin and in France as an AOC.

Neil's Heavy Concept Album

A parody horror movie commercial, which sees vegetarian Neil being turned into a carnivorous monster after accidentally eating a hamburger leads into the original Planer composition "Lentil Nightmare", a dark heavy metal number that quotes briefly from King Crimson's "The Court of the Crimson King" and features Planer singing in an uncharacteristic wailing, high falsetto.

Padra

Padra is also well known for producing Toor or Tuvar Dal (a yellowish type of lentil which is a part of everyday Gujarati food).

Poovaipalayam

The villagers are primarily farmers who grow drumsticks, onions, chili peppers, peanuts, tomatoes, eggplants, beans and lentils.

Wasp

The study called for lentil feeding stations to be installed for wasps across the world so as to reduce the risk of stings, but this was labelled "preposterous and ultimately a waste of money" by a senior United Nations politician.

Zaranj District

Per a 2007 report from the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, the district grows maize, wheat, melon, watermelon, millet and lentil.


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