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Both, and that is the source of most of the confusion. Dal is the split pulse itself - the dry ingredient in the bag - and it is also the name of the dish made from it. A shop selling you dal is selling the pulse; a menu offering dal is offering the dish.

No. Masoor, moong, urad, chana and toor are different pulses from different plants, not grades of one product. They differ in colour, in how firm they stay, and in what dishes they belong to, and swapping one for another gives you a different dish rather than the same dish slightly altered. The name on the pack is the pulse, so it is worth reading.

Whether the seed coat has been removed before splitting. The skin-on version keeps the darker outer coat and holds its shape more; the skinned version is the pale inner pulse and breaks down more readily. They are sold as separate products because they suit different dishes, and a recipe that names one is not really asking for the other.

Yes, they are sold and used as different products. A split pulse has been broken in two, so the two halves are exposed, while a whole pulse keeps its seed coat and its shape. Most recipes are written for one or the other and will say which.

Agriculture. Harvest, growing season, variety and how long a batch has been in the warehouse all shift the shade, so a bag that looks lighter or darker than your last one is normal rather than a fault.

A small amount of foreign matter turns up in unpolished dry pulses from time to time, which is why the traditional habit is to tip a pack out and look it over before it goes anywhere near a pot. A pack that is visibly dirty, smells musty or has live insects in it is a different matter and should go back to the store.

It does, and it is worth going by the best-before date on the pack rather than assuming dry means indefinite. Pulses harden as they age and older stock behaves differently from fresh, which is the usual explanation when a bag does not turn out the way the last one did. Buy a size the household gets through rather than a bigger bag that sits for two years.

Decant it into sealed airtight containers rather than leaving it in the bag it arrived in. That bag is made to survive a pallet and a courier, not months in a kitchen. Keep the containers cool, dry and out of direct light, and use a dry scoop.

Sealed containers, and a couple of days in the freezer when a pack arrives. Pantry moths usually come in with the goods rather than flying into your kitchen, so treating a pack on arrival catches the problem before it spreads along the shelf.

The ingredient list, any allergen statement, the country of origin and the best-before date, all of which are the manufacturer's to state and are printed on the packaging rather than reproduced here. The product page carries the weight, the barcode and the date as the store entered them.

Yes. DoorToShop is a multi-merchant marketplace, so this can go in the same cart as items from other local stores and you check out once.

Delivery is calculated at checkout, where the exact amount is confirmed. Free delivery applies above the threshold shown there, in the Auckland region only. There is no minimum order value, and you can combine items from other local stores in the same cart.