Pictures of peas:
Annual climbing herb in the legume family, 0.5-2 meters tall. The whole plant is green, smooth and glabrous, pruinose. Leaves with 4-6 leaflets, stipules cordate, lower margin finely dentate. Leaflets ovoid; flowers solitary in leaf axils or several arranged in racemes.
Calyx campanulate, lobes lanceolate; corolla color varies with species, but mostly white and purple. Ovary glabrous, style flattened. Pods swollen, long ellipsoid; seeds round, lime green, turning yellow when dry. Flowering period June-July, fruiting period July-September.
Expanded Information
Pea is a half-hardy crop, preferring a mild and humid climate, and does not tolerate 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 retain water strong, good aeration and rich in humus sandy loam and loam is most suitable. ph value of 6.0-7.2.
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.
The fresh stem slightly, pods, green peas 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 the 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.