Peas and carrots stew

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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Peas are contained within a pod. The pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the flowering plant species Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas, which can be green or yellow.

Peas are annual plants, with a life cycle of one year. The average pea weighs between 0. A pea is a most commonly green, occasionally golden yellow, or infrequently purple pod-shaped vegetable, widely grown as a cool-season vegetable crop. Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults. Peas have both low-growing and vining cultivars. Pea in a painting by Mateusz Tokarski, ca. The wild pea is restricted to the Mediterranean Basin and the Near East.

The earliest archaeological finds of peas date from the late Neolithic era of current Greece, Syria, Turkey, Israel, Iraq and Jordan. In Egypt, early finds date from c. 4400 BC in the Nile delta area, and from c. In early times, peas were grown mostly for their dry seeds. From plants growing wild in the Mediterranean Basin, constant selection since the Neolithic dawn of agriculture improved their yield. In the Middle Ages, field peas are constantly mentioned, as they were the staple that kept famine at bay, as Charles the Good, count of Flanders, noted explicitly in 1124. Green “garden” peas, eaten immature and fresh, were an innovative luxury of Early Modern Europe.