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Pea, is a pea plant in the legume family.

Pea, is an annual climbing herb, 0.5 to 2 meters high. The whole plant is green, smooth and glabrous, and powdery frosted.

Leaves with 4 to 6 leaflets, stipules larger than leaflets, leaflike, cordate, lower margin finely dentate. Leaflets ovoid, 2 to 5 cm long, 1 to 2.5 cm wide; flowers solitary in leaf axils or several arranged in racemes; calyx campanulate, y 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate; corolla color varies with species, but mostly white and purple, stamens bipartite.

The ovary is glabrous, the style flat, bearded on the inner side. Pods swollen, long ellipsoid, 2.5 to 10 centimeters long, 0.7 to 14 centimeters wide, obliquely acute apically, dorsally nearly straight, with a hard papery endocarp on the inner side; 2 to 10 seeds, orbicular, lime-green, wrinkled or absent, drying to yellow. Flowering June to July, fruiting July to September.

Peas are a half-hardy crop, preferring a mild, moist climate and not tolerating dry heat. Peas for long sunshine crop, like temperature, poor drought resistance. Peas on the soil adaptability of a wide range of soil quality requirements are not high, in order to water retention, good aeration and rich in humus sandy loam and loam is the most suitable. ph value of 6.0 to 7.2.

Distribution

China's main distribution in the central, northeastern and other areas. The main producing areas are Sichuan, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Qinghai, Jiangxi and many other provinces and regions. Peas are native to the Mediterranean and Central Asia, mainly scattered in Asia and Europe.

Main value

Peas fresh and tender stem slightly, pods, green beans are doubly popular off-season vegetables. The processing of dry peas fine grinding, choose smooth round peas as raw materials, using a specific machine combined with the process of pea grain seed coat, cotyledon and germ three parts of the separation, and then ground separately, to get edible fiber powder, cotyledon powder and germ powder. The edible fiber powder ground from the seed coat part can be used as an additive of edible fiber in bread or nutritious food, which improves the fluffiness of food and promotes the digestive function of human body. Cotyledon powder and germ flour in the production of baby food, health food and flavor food is very wide range of uses, is commonly used as a natural emulsifier, but also lysine enhancer. In addition, dry peas can also be extracted pea protein concentrate, pea protein powder can be used to make bread and other food enhancers, to improve its protein content and the price of raw materials, but also the production of vermicelli, hair pea seedlings and so on. The processing of green peas and pea pods can be made canned, dehydrated, frozen. One of the quick-frozen green peas and pods of peas is a common legume vegetables. Pea food production pea yellow, pea cake food, characterized by sweet and savory, beneficial to the spleen and stomach. Can also make branded fried leisure food.