Lentils

Lentils trade as two commercially distinct streams. Red lentils are grown for dehulling and splitting: the buyer is paying for a clean split with minimal broken and powder, because the product is going into dal, soups and ready meals where cooking time and colour matter more than seed size. Green lentils are usually sold whole with the seed coat intact, and here size class drives the price — the large-seeded types command a premium in markets that use them as a plate presence rather than a purée.

The three quality questions that decide acceptance are the same everywhere: foreign material and defect tolerance, moisture at loading, and colour uniformity. Moisture is the one that ruins shipments — pulses loaded near the upper limit will sweat in a container crossing the tropics and arrive with mould or caking, which is why a stated maximum moisture and a container lining specification belong in the enquiry, not in the claim afterwards.

Because the same field crop can be presented as whole, split or dehulled product, tell us the finished form you need. Splitting yield and process losses are what separate two quotations that look identical on the surface.