How Big Is Chickpea? 8 mm (0.31 in) Compared | Magnitudle

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Chickpea (8 mm) drawn to scale beside a grain of rice (7 mm) and a large coin (2.4 cm) — Drawn to scale, from left to right: Grain of rice (7 mm), Chickpea (8 mm) and Large coin (2.4 cm).

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How big is that, really?

About 3 would fit across a large coin
About the length of a grain of rice
As wide as about 4 raindrops side by side
As wide as about 16 grains of sand side by side
About 70× as wide as a human egg cell

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Facts about Chickpea

Chickpeas are the edible seeds of Cicer arietinum, a legume domesticated thousands of years ago.

Source: USDA FoodData Central, “Chickpeas, mature seeds, cooked”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Chickpea”

Food & Drink

Name	Size	Compared with Chickpea
Lentil	4 mm (0.16 in)	0.5×
Rice grain	7 mm (0.28 in)	0.88×
Pea	8 mm (0.31 in)	same size
Chickpea	8 mm (0.31 in)	this page
Coffee bean	9 mm (0.35 in)	1.1×
Corn kernel	1.2 cm (0.47 in)	1.5×
Blueberry	1.5 cm (0.59 in)	1.9×
Sunflower seed	1.5 cm (0.59 in)	1.9×
Grape	2 cm (0.79 in)	2.5×
Cherry	2 cm (0.79 in)	2.5×

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Which is bigger: Chickpea or Corn kernel?

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