Oriental Green Peas and the possible benefit of this winter crop.

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Green peas Description: Taxonomy, Morphology and Floral Biology.

Green Peas Extract INCI Name Pisum Sativum Extract CAS 90082-41-0 EINECS ELINCS No 290-130-6 Oriental Green Peas Pea Extract Pisum sativum L dry Batani Erbese Ater pois Takarmany borso photo picture image Nature packages green peas in several different forms all of which have a vibrantly delicious flavor, wonderful texture and a wealth of health promoting nutrients. Garden peas are generally available from spring through the beginning of winter.

 Legumes are plants that bear fruit in the form of pods enclosing the fleshy seeds we know as beans. Peas are one of the few members of the legume family that are sold and cooked as fresh vegetables. However, only about 5% of the peas grown are sold fresh; the rest are either frozen or canned. Frozen peas are preferable to canned peas as they retain their flavor and have lower sodium content.
 Green Peas Extract INCI Name Pisum Sativum Extract CAS 90082-41-0 EINECS ELINCS No 290-130-6 Oriental Green Peas Pea Extract Pisum sativum L dry Batani Erbese Ater pois Takarmany borso photo picture image

 When most people think of peas, they remember them as the food that they loved to hate when they were children, yet one that was extremely fun to play with on their plates. Yet, many of these same people, since they have become adults, have a renewed appreciation for this vibrant and delicious legume due to its wonderful taste and texture. There are generally three types of peas that are commonly eaten: garden or green peas, snow peas and snap peas.
 Green Peas Extract INCI Name Pisum Sativum Extract CAS 90082-41-0 EINECS ELINCS No 290-130-6 Oriental Green Peas Pea Extract Pisum sativum L dry Batani Erbese Ater pois Takarmany borso photo picture image

 Garden peas have rounded pods that are usually slightly curved in shape with a smooth texture and vibrant green color. Inside of them are green rounded pea seeds that are sweet and starchy in taste. Snow peas are flatter than garden peas, and since they are not fully opaque, you can usually see the shadows of the flat peas seeds within. Snap peas, a cross between the garden and snow pea, have plump pods with a crisp, snappy texture. The pods of both snow peas and snap peas are edible, and both feature a slightly sweeter and cooler taste than the garden pea. Garden peas are scientifically known as Pisum sativum.
 Green Peas Extract INCI Name Pisum Sativum Extract CAS 90082-41-0 EINECS ELINCS No 290-130-6 Oriental Green Peas Pea Extract Pisum sativum L dry Batani Erbese Ater pois Takarmany borso photo picture image

 Duke (1981) reported that garden peas are treated as P. sativum ssp. hortense Asch. Graebn., field peas as P. sativum ssp. arvense (L.) Poir., and edible podded peas as P. sativum ssp. macrocarpon; early dwarf pea as P. sativum var humile. Later, Smart (1990), based on studies undertaken by Ben-Zeiev and Zohary (1973), and Polhill and van der Maesen et al., (1985) reported that pea comprises only two species, viz; Pisum sativum and P. fulvum Sibeth.Smith. "It is a self pollinated annual herb, bushy or climbing, glabrous, usually glaucous; stems weak, round, and slender, 30-150 cm long; leaves alternate, pinnate with 1-3 pairs of leaflets and a terminal branched tendril leaflets ovate or elliptic, 1.5-6 cm long" (Duke, 1981). The leaf type could be conventional, semi-leafless and leafless (Davies et al., 1985). Leaf size in most cases increases up to the first node bearing the first flower. Stipules are large, leaflike and up to 10 cm long. The inflorescence of pea is a raceme arising from the axil of the leaf. Corolla white, or pink, or purple; pods swollen or compressed, short-stalked, straight or curved, 4-15 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, 2-10 seeded, 2-valved, dehiscent on both sutures (Gritton, 1980; Duke, 1981). The node at which the first flower emerges is characteristic of a given variety; in temperate regions the number of nodes at which the first flower emerges is reported to vary from 4 in the earliest to about 25 in late maturing types under field conditions (Gritton, 1980). Flowers borne on the same peduncle produce pods that mature at different times, the youngest being at the tip. On a whole plant basis, flowering is sequential and upwards from node to node. Seeds are globose or angled, smooth or wrinkled, exalbuminous, whitish, gray, green, or brownish; 100 seeds can weigh from 10 to 36 grams; germination cryptocotylar

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