Swap guide: Lentils

Lentils are one of the pulse crops where glyphosate can be applied shortly before harvest. Here is what the sources say, and the certified lentil products on ByeGly.

Why lentils come up

• Registered before harvest in Canada. Canada first registered pre-harvest glyphosate on lentils, among other crops, in 1992.¹ Keep it Clean's 2026 advisory says glyphosate is registered for pre-harvest weed control on chickpeas, lentils, peas and dry beans, applied only when seed moisture is under 30% in the least mature part of the field.²
• U.S. use. Washington State University lists glyphosate as a harvest aid in chickpea, dry pea and lentil, and notes that some pulse buyers will not purchase crops treated with it.³
• Pulse products are tested. In CFIA's 2015-2016 survey, glyphosate was detected in 47.4% of 869 bean, pea and lentil product samples, with 0.6% above Canadian limits.⁴

See the spray calendar for lentil timing in Saskatchewan and the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho.

None of this tells you how a particular product was grown or made. That is what certifications are for. For what regulators have said about glyphosate, see Where agencies stand.

What to look for

• Glyphosate Residue Free or BioChecked Non-Glyphosate on the package: a lab did not detect glyphosate in the product at about 0.01 ppm. That is a detection limit, not zero, and it is not a health claim.
• USDA Certified Organic: glyphosate may not be used in organic crop production. It is not a residue test.
• Check the exact product. A certification covers the listed product, not everything a brand makes.

See How to read a label, Certifications explained and How we verify.

Certified lentils on ByeGly

• Bionaturae (Glyphosate Residue Free): Organic Gluten Free Rice And Lentil Elbows; Organic Gluten Free Rice And Lentil Fusilli; Organic Gluten Free Rice And Lentil Penne Rigate; Organic Gluten Free Rice And Lentil Rigatoni. Where to buy: store locator.
• Heyday Canning Co (Glyphosate Residue Free): Golden Butternut Lentil Stew. Where to buy: store locator; retailers named on the brand's site: Target, Whole Foods Market.
• Jovial Foods (Glyphosate Residue Free): Organic Italian Lentils And Tomatoes. Where to buy: store locator.
• One Degree Organic Foods (BioChecked Non-Glyphosate): Lentil Grain Bread; Organic Green Lentils. Where to buy: store locator.
• Palouse Brand (Glyphosate Residue Free): Brown Lentils; Legume Bundle Brown Lentils Green Split Peas; Legume Variety Bundle Chickpeas Brown Lentils; Legume Variety Bundle Chickpeas Green Split Peas Brown Lentils; Red And Yellow Lentils; Red Lentils; Yellow Lentils. Where to buy: retailers named on the brand's site: Amazon.
• Taste Republic (Glyphosate Residue Free): Fresh Gluten + Grain Free Red Lentil Fusilli - Organic (6-Pack). Where to buy: store locator.

Only the exact products listed on ByeGly are certified as far as we can confirm. Other products from the same brand are not on our list unless they appear there.

Each listing on ByeGly shows the certification, a Source link to the brand page where we saw it, the date we last checked it, and a Buy link to the brand's own site. Where the brand's site has a store locator or names retailers, we show it next to the brand.

Related

• Chickpeas: see the chickpeas guide. Beans and split peas: see the beans guide.

Don't see what you buy? If it isn't listed, it's not on our list yet. Use Request a product to ask us to look at it. We add a listing only if we can confirm a named certification on the brand's own public site.

Sources

Product facts come from the live ByeGly product database (Supabase project byegly, public listings, read November 10, 2026). Product and certification names are shown as the brand writes them; where-to-buy details come from the brand's own site as recorded in that database.