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Re: sugar snap peas on induction?
Brief Botany Lesson....
There are 2 types of peas: peas with inedible pods and peas with edible pods.
Peas with inedible pods are typically starchy. Frozen green peas are from these inedible pod peas. Those frozen peas are the seeds of the pea. Seeds are storage forms for the plants, so they are high in sugar (starch) and fat (for some but not all). I don't know if anyone had a grandmother or someone who used to shell peas for dinner. If you do, those are the peas with inedible pods that you can find frozen in the supermarket. They're also called "English peas" for some reason. According to the USDA website, 1 cup green peas, raw have 20.97 total carbs, 7.4 grams fiber.
Peas with edible pods are a subcategory of the inedible pods. These peas have been bred to mature while the pods remains soft and tender, hence, edible. Ideally, the seeds aren't well developed in either sugar snap or snow peas. Sugar snap peas and snow peas are types of edible pod peas. The USDA website doesn't distinguish between snow peas and sugar snap peas: they just lump them together in the "edible pod" category.
This is where I get nervous. I remember that sugar snap peas are a cross between the snow pea (edible pod) and the regular pea (inedible pod) resulting in a very sweet pea with an edible pod.
This is the info on sugar snap peas from Mann's, a produce distributor:
http://mann.broccoli.com/peasnut.htm
Personally, I didn't eat sugar snap peas during Induction because they were too expensive and the ones in the market tend to be kind of old (they have big seeds.)
Brief Botany Lesson....
There are 2 types of peas: peas with inedible pods and peas with edible pods.
Peas with inedible pods are typically starchy. Frozen green peas are from these inedible pod peas. Those frozen peas are the seeds of the pea. Seeds are storage forms for the plants, so they are high in sugar (starch) and fat (for some but not all). I don't know if anyone had a grandmother or someone who used to shell peas for dinner. If you do, those are the peas with inedible pods that you can find frozen in the supermarket. They're also called "English peas" for some reason. According to the USDA website, 1 cup green peas, raw have 20.97 total carbs, 7.4 grams fiber.
Peas with edible pods are a subcategory of the inedible pods. These peas have been bred to mature while the pods remains soft and tender, hence, edible. Ideally, the seeds aren't well developed in either sugar snap or snow peas. Sugar snap peas and snow peas are types of edible pod peas. The USDA website doesn't distinguish between snow peas and sugar snap peas: they just lump them together in the "edible pod" category.
This is where I get nervous. I remember that sugar snap peas are a cross between the snow pea (edible pod) and the regular pea (inedible pod) resulting in a very sweet pea with an edible pod.
This is the info on sugar snap peas from Mann's, a produce distributor:
http://mann.broccoli.com/peasnut.htm
Personally, I didn't eat sugar snap peas during Induction because they were too expensive and the ones in the market tend to be kind of old (they have big seeds.)
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