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The tables below include tabular lists for selected basic foods, compiled from United States Dept. of Agriculture sources.Included for each food is its weight in grams, its calories, and (also in grams,) the amount of protein, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, fat, and saturated fat. [1]
Peas nutrition. In a cup of cooked green peas, you'll find: 134 calories. 8.6 grams protein. 0.4 grams fat. 25 grams carbohydrates. 8.8 grams fiber. Peas benefits.
Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Carl Linnaeus gave the species the scientific name Pisum sativum in 1753 (meaning cultivated pea).
The planting of crops of black-eyed peas was promoted by George Washington Carver because, as a legume, it adds nitrogen to the soil and has high nutritional value. Throughout the South, the black-eyed pea is still a widely used ingredient today [10] in soul food and cuisines of the Southern United States. [11]
[3] [8] [9] This is because in 1990 at a FAO/WHO meeting, it was decided that proteins having values higher than 1.0 would be rounded or "leveled down" to 1.0 as scores above 1.0 are considered to indicate the protein contains essential amino acids in excess of the human requirements. [10]
The peas are dried and the dull-coloured outer skin of the pea removed, then split in half by hand or by machine at the natural split in the seed's cotyledon. There are green and yellow varieties of split pea. Gregor Mendel studied the inheritance of seed colour in peas; the green phenotype is recessive to the yellow one
Chamaecrista fasciculata, the partridge pea, is a species of legume native to most of the eastern United States. [2] It is an annual which grows to approximately 0.5 meters (1 ft 8 in) tall. [ 2 ] It has bright yellow flowers from early summer until first frost, [ 3 ] with flowers through the entire flowering season if rainfall is sufficient.
A child holding an edible pod pea in Kenya. Snow peas, along with snap peas and unlike field and garden peas, are notable for having edible pods that lack inedible fiber [11] (in the form of "parchment", a fibrous layer found in the inner pod rich in lignin [12]) in the pod walls. Snow peas have the thinner walls of the two edible pod variants.