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By the 17th and 18th centuries, it had become popular to eat peas "green", that is, while they are immature and right after they are picked. [52] New cultivars of peas were developed by the English during this time, which became known as "garden" or "English" peas. The popularity of green peas spread to North America.
Many crop plants are known as peas, particularly . Pisum sativum. pea; marrowfat peas; snap pea; snow pea; split pea; and: chickpea, Cicer arietinum; cowpea, Vigna ...
Marrowfat peas. Marrowfat peas are green mature peas (Pisum sativum L. [1] or Pisum sativum var. medullare [2]) that have been allowed to dry out naturally in the field, rather than being harvested while still young like the normal garden pea. They are starchy, and are used to make mushy peas.
Most commercially produced mushy peas contain artificial colourants to make them green; without these the dish would be murky grey. [4] Traditionally the controversial colourant tartrazine (E102) had been used as one of the colourants; however, as recently as 2019, major manufacturers were using a combination of brilliant blue FCF (E133) and riboflavin (E101).
The brand "Green Giant Great Big Tender Peas" was first used in 1925, [3] and the figure of a giant was introduced three years later by Carly Stanek (Bingum). The brand was created in response to the discovery of a new variety of pea , the Prince of Wales; they were "oblong, wrinkled, and, as peas go, huge.
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
Field pea may refer to: Pea § Field pea , any of certain varieties of common pea ( Lathyrus oleraceus ) used worldwide for human or animal consumption; sometimes called dry field pea Cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata ), used for culinary purposes and forage in Africa and the Americas
The Fabaceae (/ f ə ˈ b eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /) or Leguminosae, [6] commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and agriculturally important family of flowering plants. It includes trees , shrubs , and perennial or annual herbaceous plants , which are easily recognized by their fruit ( legume ) and their compound, stipulate ...