Peas

Parent Category: Commodities Category: Pulses

A pea is usually the small round seed or the seed-pod of the legume Pisum sativum. Each pod contains a few peas. Though regarded as a vegetable in cooking, from botanic point of view it is a fruit. Pisum sativum is an annual plant, with a life cycle of one year. It is a cool season crop that grows in various parts of the world; it can be planted from winter through to early summer depending on location. The average pea weighs between 0.1 and 0.36 grams. The species can be used as a fresh vegetable, frozen or canned, but is also grown to produce dry peas like the split pea.

Peas can be of three types: green, yellow and sweet peas.

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