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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.
Gompholobium latifolium, commonly known as golden glory pea [2] or giant wedge-pea, [3] is a flowering plant in the pea family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small shrub with leaves composed of three leaflets and which has relatively large yellow flowers in spring and early summer.
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 company that is now known as Green Giant was founded in 1903 as The Minnesota Valley Canning Company, by 14 Le Sueur local merchants. In 1925, along with the introduction of "Green Giant Great Big Tender Peas", a company mascot based on Paul Bunyan was introduced called "The Jolly Green Giant". The new mascot spurred the company to change ...
Canned marrowfat or "processed" peas are reconstituted from dried peas. These are soaked in cold water for 12 to 16 hours, sometimes with sodium bicarbonate added to aid softening. The peas are then blanched for 5 minutes and then canned in a brine containing sugar, salt and food colouring , before the cans are heat processed at 115 °C (239 °F).
Gompholobium, commonly known as glory peas or wedge-peas, is a genus of plants in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia. Most species have compound leaves composed of three leaflets and all have ten stamens which are free from each other and a distinctive arrangement of their sepals .
Vigna unguiculata is a member of the Vigna (peas and beans) genus. Unguiculata is Latin for "with a small claw", which reflects the small stalks on the flower petals. [7] Common names for cultivated cowpeas include black-eye pea, [8] southern pea, [9] niebe [10] (alternatively ñebbe), [11] and crowder pea. [12]
Dry pea seeds have been discovered in a Swiss village that are believed to date back to the Stone Age. Archaeological evidence suggests that these peas must have been grown in the eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamian regions at least 5,000 years ago and in Britain as early as the 11th century. [ 38 ]