Household Ingredients Compared  ›  Dried Lentils and Chickpeas (Singapore)

Dried lentils and chickpeas: what's actually in them?

Dried lentils and chickpeas are single-ingredient products: the pack contains one pulse and nothing else. The differences are the pulse itself — red split lentils cook in minutes and dissolve; kabuli chickpeas (the large white chickpea) need soaking and long cooking; chana dhal is split chickpeas, not a lentil at all — and the origin, where printed: Parliament Kabuli Chana and Kitchen Xpress Chana Dhal both print India as their country/place of origin.

This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed, with the country of manufacture as printed, and flags added sugar and allergens.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Every product here is one ingredient. Dried lentils and chickpeas are sold as the dried pulse alone — no salt, sugar, oil or additives in any panelled product.
• Chana dhal is split chickpeas, not lentils. Kitchen Xpress Chana Dhal is split chickpeas (chana dal). It sits in the lentil aisle but is a chickpea product.
• Red split lentils vs whole red lentils are different products. Simply Natural Organic Red Split Lentils are split (hulled, halved); Green Earth Organic Red Lentil is the whole red lentil. Different cooking, different pack.
• Canned legumes are a different category. Honest to Goodness canned chickpeas and brown lentils (seen at Scoop) are canned products with brine — they belong on a canned-beans page, not here.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 5 products. Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale.

Chickpeas

Lentils

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Green Earth Organic Mung Beans; Green Earth Organic Soya Beans; Green Earth Organic Adzuki Beans; Green Earth Organic Red Kidney Bean; Green Earth Organic Green Kernal [sic] Black Beans — other dried pulses listed at FairPrice; mung beans, soya beans, adzuki and kidney beans are pulses but not lentils or chickpeas, so they are noted here and belong on a dried-beans page.
• Laobanniang Dried Black Beans — FairPrice lists it; a black bean, not a lentil or chickpea.
• Honest to Goodness Organic Chickpeas (400g, canned, no added salt); Honest to Goodness Organic Brown Lentils (400g, canned, no added salt) — canned legumes seen at Scoop (noted in social-media coverage); canned products with brine, out of scope for this dried page.
• Ayam Brand Tuna Light Meal — Chickpeas, Lentils & Quinoa (Mildly Spicy) — a ready meal containing chickpeas and lentils, not a plain dried pulse.
• GardenScent Roasted Chickpeas 400g — roasted/snack chickpeas; a snack product, not a dried cooking pulse.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

No per-100g or per-serving nutrition panel was retrieved for any dried lentil or chickpea in this pass. FairPrice lists these dried pulses without a nutrition section in the sources retrieved. No figures are borrowed from generic pulse data — the table is therefore empty by design, and the gap is recorded below.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where a source printed salt only, the sodium figure is salt ÷ 2.5 and is flagged as computed.

Total vs added sugars: most Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as "added sugar". Where a source states an added-sugars figure separately, it is noted. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar.

Click a column header to sort low-to-high, click again for high-to-low. Rows marked "not stated" always sort last — a dash is missing data, not zero. Open Food Facts is a community database and is flagged as secondary where used: the pack and the retailer nutrition section take precedence if they disagree. Figures marked "not stated" were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours. No Nutri-Grade applies to these foods as non-drinks, and none is quoted or assigned here.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): Laobanniang Raw Chickpeas; Parliament Kabuli Chana; Kitchen Xpress Chana Dhal; Green Earth Organic Red Lentil; Simply Natural Organic Red Split Lentils; Green Earth Organic Mung Beans, Soya Beans, Adzuki Beans, Red Kidney Bean and Green Kernal Black Beans; Laobanniang Dried Black Beans. No nutrition panel was retrieved for any of these.

How to read a label — the jargon, in plain English

Kabuli chana

The large, pale "white" chickpea (kabuli), as opposed to desi chana, the smaller brown chickpea. Parliament's Kabuli Chana is the large white type.

Chana dhal / chana dal

Split chickpeas — chickpeas hulled and split in half. Cooks faster than whole chickpeas and is the base of chana dal masala. Not a lentil, despite sitting in the lentil aisle.

Red split lentils (masoor dal)

Red lentils hulled and split. They cook in 10–15 minutes and dissolve into a thick puree — unlike whole red or brown lentils, which hold their shape.

Single-ingredient product

A product whose pack contains one food and nothing else. No separate ingredient section is published for these pulses, so the panel records the pulse itself and flags that — it is not an invented list.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. This page does not rank products.
• Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
• Not complete. The products in seen-but-not-verified are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice similar-products and dried-food category listings (Laobanniang, Parliament, Kitchen Xpress, Green Earth, Simply Natural — inventory and origins); social-media coverage of Scoop (Honest to Goodness canned legumes, noted as out of scope). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page.