How Big Is Lentil? 4 mm (0.16 in) Compared | Magnitudle

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Lentil (4 mm) drawn to scale beside a raindrop (2 mm) and a grain of rice (7 mm) — Drawn to scale, from left to right: Raindrop (2 mm), Lentil (4 mm) and Grain of rice (7 mm).

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How big is that, really?

As wide as about 2 raindrops side by side
About 57% of the length of a grain of rice
About 6 would fit across a large coin
As wide as about 8 grains of sand side by side
About 35× as wide as a human egg cell

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Facts about Lentil

Lentils are legumes whose small, lens-shaped seeds grow in pods containing one or two seeds.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Lentil; USDA FoodData Central — Lentils, mature seeds, raw

Food & Drink

Name	Size	Compared with Lentil
Sesame seed	2 mm	0.5×
Mustard seed	2 mm	0.5×
Lentil	4 mm (0.16 in)	this page
Rice grain	7 mm (0.28 in)	1.8×
Pea	8 mm (0.31 in)	2×
Chickpea	8 mm (0.31 in)	2×
Coffee bean	9 mm (0.35 in)	2.3×
Corn kernel	1.2 cm (0.47 in)	3×
Blueberry	1.5 cm (0.59 in)	3.8×
Sunflower seed	1.5 cm (0.59 in)	3.8×

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