|
Parameter |
Requirements |
Comments/ Variations |
| Physical
Characteristics |
Good colour lentils: Split lentils
having a clean and bright appearance.
The lentils shall be milled from
hard and well-filled whole red lentil
seed. |
| Purity |
99.75% min. by weight |
Split lentils, whole Lentils and
caps. |
| Moisture |
14% max. |
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| Foreign
Material |
0.25% max. by weight |
Unmilliable material (i.e. includes
soil, stones, metals and non-vegetable
matter) and all vegetable matter
other than Lentil seed material
including detached seed coats. |
| Poor
colour |
0.25% max. by weight |
Kernel that is distinctly off colour
from the characteristic colour of
the predominating class. Includes
lentils that are brown, black, green
and / or yellow. |
| Chalky
white disease |
0.25% max. by weight |
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| Caps |
0.25% max. by weight |
Caps are those seed coats adhering
to split or broken see measured
as a combined weight. |
| Dehulled
whole lentils |
5% max. by weight |
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| Broken
and /or kibble lentils |
5% max. by weight |
Lentil seed material that passes
through a round hole screen. Northfield
= 2.87mm; all other varieties =
3mm |
| Screen
size |
Northfield = 2.78mm round hole
All other varieties – 3 mm round
hole |
Lentil material broken or kibble
if falls through. |
| Field
insects |
Nil tolerance |
Dead per 200 g sample |
| Foreign
seeds |
2 cereal seeds max. |
Cereal seeds exception only. |
