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[edit] Photo request

A photo of a pea plant would be very nice here. AxelBoldt 04:50, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request

The fact that peas are a fruit should be mentioned.

Done, but I made sure to keep the fact that they're a culinary vegetable. Trimethylxanthine 01:30, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request

How about some nutritional information on peas ?

I'm looking for allergies of peas...

[edit] Reseeding Reference

This page contains the information that peas should be planted once every four years, but I don't know how to set up the reference section in the article. If someone could do that, that'd be great.

Done! (It's easy enough to do... just surround the URL with single brackets). SB Johnny 20:52, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Strange take on economics

"In Chinese cuisine, pea sprouts (豆苗 dou miao) are commonly used in stir-fries and its price is relatively high due to its agreeable taste."

This doesn't sound like a very good reasoning for the 'relatively high' price of peas.Jimjamjak 13:47, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] merge of Sugar snap pea

Someone should put a Template:Mergfrom on this to get the sugar snap pea included in this article. As I understand it they're grown in much the same way and since they're the same type of plant it makes sense to include it here rather than continuing to have its own article stub.

Can I just make Sugar snap pea redirect to Snap pea (which already mentions the Sugar Snap)? There doesn't seem to be any content at Sugar snap pea which needs merging. Kingdon 21:22, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Hearing no objection, I have done this. Kingdon 21:09, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request

I miss some information about the producing regions of peas.

[edit] Toxicity of raw peas

Does the consumption of raw peas pose any dangers (as with the lectins found in the raw common bean)? Badagnani (talk) 08:04, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm not a doctor or anything but it doesn't sound like it causes any really major problems (but I tend to veg cooked until water changes colour, because it improves bioavailability of nutrients by breaking down the cell wall as well as reducing lectins): [1]- (User) WolfKeeper (Talk) 14:03, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contradiction

"Both of these are eaten whole and are therefore known as 'mange tout.' Both are eaten before the pod reaches maturity. In the snow pea (often erroneously called 'mange tout') the pod is eaten flat."

The first "both" refers to snow peas and sugar snap peas, so it implies that snow peas are known as "mange tout." However, two sentences later we are told that calling snow peas "mange tout" is erroneous. Which is true?

69.146.162.225 (talk) 20:26, 20 May 2008 (UTC)