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Created by: Anonymous

Edited by: Barnaby Dorfman, Colin Saunders, Alisa Escanlar, Timeless Gourmet, Melissa Marshall, Sheri, mrsound, Desiree Lowe

Other Names: Peas, Green Peas

Translations: 绿豌豆 (Chinese), البازلاء الخضراء (Arabic), Ervilhas (Portuguese), Pois verts (French), Arvejas (Spanish) All Translations

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The abundance of green peas announce the coming of spring. These yummy, chubby pea pods are a powerhouse of vitamins and nutrients. They are rich in vitamins A, B-1, B-6, C and K which is good for the bones, and are a rich source of protein too! As they say, great things do come in small pods.

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A pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the legume ''Pisum sativum''.Oxford English Dictionary - Pea Each pod contains several peas. Although it is botanically a fruit,Rogers, Speed (2007). Read Books. pp. 169–170. ISBN 1406733040 retrieved on 2009-04-15. it is treated as a vegetable in cooking. The name is also used to describe other edible seeds from the Fabaceae such as the pigeon pea (''Cajanus cajan''), the cowpea (''Vigna unguiculata''), and the seeds from several species of ''Lathyrus''. ''P. sativum'' is an annual plant, with a life cycle of one year. It is a cool season crop grown in many parts of the world; planting can take place from winter through to early summer depending on location. The average pea weighs between 0.1 and 0.36 grams. The species is used as a vegetable – fresh, frozen or canned, and is also grown to produce dry peas like the split pea. These varieties are typically called field peas. The wild pea is restricted to the Mediterranean basin and the Near East. The earliest archaeological finds of peas come from Neolithic Syria, Turkey and Jordan. In Egypt, early finds date from ''ca''. 4800–4400 BC in the Nile delta area, and from ''ca''. 3800–3600 BC in Upper Egypt. The pea was also present in Georgia in the 5th millennium BC. Farther east, the finds are younger. Peas were present in Afghanistan ''ca''. 2000 BC, in Harappa, Pakistan, and in north-west India in 2250–1750 BC. In the second half of the 2nd millennium BC this pulse crop appears in the Gangetic basin and southern India.Zohary, Daniel and Hopf, Maria (2000). ''Domestication of Plants in the Old World'', third edition. Oxford: University Press. ISBN 0-19-850356-3 p. 105–107

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